State v. J.H.

The trial court granted J.H.’s motion to suppress on the ground that he was in custody when he turned over drugs to a school resource officer without a Miranda warning. We reverse because the officer had reasonable suspicion to search J.H. and the drugs would have inevitably been discovered.

J.H. was a high school student. A police officer working at the school was told by another student found with marijuana that J.H. had possessed marijuana earlier that day. The officer contacted the dean, the dean asked J.H. to step out of class, and the officer asked J.H. if he had anything improper on…