State v. Menke

ORME, Judge:

Defendant appeals his conviction for retail theft, a class A misdemeanor, in violation of Utah Code Ann. § 76-6-602(1) (1989). The conviction was based on defendant’s conditional guilty plea, entered after he unsuccessfully sought to suppress critical evidence. Defendant argues on appeal that the police officers who arrested him did not have an articulable suspicion to stop him or probable cause to search and seize property in his possession. We affirm.

STANDARD OF REVIEW

We begin by recognizing that “[b]ecause of the trial court’s advantageous position in determining the factual…