State v. Brown

This is an interlocutory appeal by the State from an order granting a motion to suppress. At the hearing on the motion to suppress, it was apparent that the evidence adduced was not all that was actually seized from the defendant at the time she was apprehended, some of the evidence having been stolen from the legal custodian pending the trial court proceedings.

We find that the trial court committed error in suppressing the evidence because all of it was not present at the hearing. While this might be a good ground for denying its admission into evidence at the time it is offered [Deeb v.…