State v. Allman

MARTIN, Chief Justice.

The sole issue before us is whether the trial court properly granted defendant’s motion to suppress evidence. The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s ruling. We hold that the magistrate in this case had a substantial basis to find that probable cause existed to issue the challenged search warrant, and we therefore reverse the decision of the Court of Appeals.

Defendant lived with Sean Whitehead and Jeremy Black, who were half-brothers, at 4844 Acres Drive in Wilmington, North Carolina. The police stopped a car that Black was driving. Whitehead was a passenger.…