State v. Rowell

Defendant was convicted of 24 counts of identity theft, five counts of first-degree theft, two counts of computer crime, and two counts of first-degree forgery. Much of the prosecution’s evidence derived from the search of a computer that police opened in the process of inventorying the contents of an automobile in which defendant was a passenger. One item inventoried was a laptop bag. The bag contained a stolen computer; the computer contained information that, along with other information independently obtained, supported issuance of a warrant to search defendant’s residence; in that…