State v. Roberts

¶1 A jury convicted Eric Roberts of possession of cocaine found during a search of his car. For the first time on appeal, Roberts argues that under the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332, 129 S. Ct. 1710, 173 L. Ed. 2d 485 (2009), the search violated his constitutional rights under the Fourth *177Amendment and article I, section 7 of the Washington State Constitution. Roberts concedes there were two plausible grounds for the police to search his car, a search incident to arrest and an inventory search, but asserts that the record shows the primary purpose of the…