State v. Northness

Reed, A.C.J.

The State appeals from orders of the Cowlitz County Superior Court which suppressed evidence in two related criminal proceedings; the cases were consolidated for hearing in this court. We reverse.

In each case the defendants were charged with felony possession of marijuana. The drugs were seized pursuant to search warrants for two apartments issued on the basis of a single affidavit containing information provided by a named citizen informant, one Melissa Tennant. The affidavit reads as follows:

I, Edward L. Reeves, first being duly sworn on oath, depose and say: That I am a…