State v. Mendoza

DURHAM, Justice:

The State brought this appeal to challenge the trial court’s suppression of evidence obtained during a search of the car in which defendants were traveling. The State assigns as error the trial court’s use of a probable cause standard to determine the validity of the stop, the trial court’s *182finding that defendants had standing to challenge the validity of the search, and the trial court’s failure to make findings pursuant to Utah Code Ann. § 77-35-12(g) (1982). We affirm.

The following summary of the facts is based on testimony from both the suppression hearing and the…