State v. Lelevier

HAYS, Justice.

This is an appeal by the State of Arizona from an order of the trial court granting the appellee’s motion to suppress certain drugs and marijuana confiscated from him by police. We have jurisdiction pursuant to 17A A.R.S. Supreme Court Rules, rule 47(e)(5).

The facts of this case are simple. Mesa Police Detective Robert Chamberlain, having received information “from several people” that appellee had been dealing in drugs, familiarized himself with appellee’s vehicle, a 1965 GMC Suburban. When Detective Chamberlain, on narcotics duty with his partner, Detective Adams, happened to…