Zorn v. State

Barnes, Chief Judge.

Following a bench trial, Paul Lloyd Zorn was convicted of numerous drug-related offenses. He appeals, arguing that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

Zorn’s appeal focuses on the validity of the warrant authorizing the search in this case. In reviewing his challenge, we give substantial deference to the magistrate’s decision to issue the warrant, and we construe the evidence in favor of the trial court’s subsequent ruling that probable cause supported it. Wise v. State,…