State v. Hutchinson

SHRUM, Judge.

The State appeals 1 a trial court’s order sustaining defendant’s motion to suppress evidence. The order suppressed “all objects seized at the scene of the arrest” 2 of defendant by Jack McMullin, a member of the Missouri Highway Patrol.

The State’s sole point on appeal is that the trial court erred in suppressing the evidence seized by the officer, “pursuant to the arrest of the defendant, which was precipitated by a lawful search for personal safety during a traffic stop because the trooper’s actions fell within those categories of searches which fall outside constitutional…