State v. ZACCONE

Defendant appeals a judgment of conviction for 10 counts of identity theft. In his first assignment of error, defendant challenges the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained during a search that occurred after the car in which he was a passenger was stopped for a traffic violation. In his second assignment, defendant asserts that the trial court erred in failing to merge his convictions. As explained below, we vacate and remand with respect to defendant’s first assignment of error. We reject defendant’s second assignment of error without discussion.

We review the…