State v. McAuliffe

GOLDEN, Justice.

[¶ 1] This case comes before this Court on the State’s “Petition for Writ of Review/Certiorari.” The State seeks review of the district court’s order granting Colin MeAuliffe’s (McAuliffe) motion to suppress evidence of his commission of several drug related crimes which was seized when law enforcement personnel were booking him on his arrest that had occurred earlier that day at the scene of a traffic stop. The district court suppressed the evidence because it found that the arrest leading to the discovery of the drug evidence violated the Fourth Amendment. Finding that the…