State v. Villanueva

OPINION

DONNELLY, Judge.

Both the state and defendant pursue interlocutory appeals from an order granting in part and denying in part defendant’s motion for suppression of evidence seized at a border checkpoint. We discuss: (1) whether the border patrol’s stop of a commercial bus in which defendant was a passenger, and the use of a narcotics detection dog to sniff the bus luggage compartments, constituted an illegal search; (2) whether the court erred in suppressing baggage claim tickets found as a result of a search of the defendant; and (3) whether the trial court erred in denying defendant’s…