State v. Iwatate

Opinion of the Court by

FOLEY, J.

In this consolidated appeal, Defendant-Appellant Richard Iwatate (Iwatate) appeals from the Judgment filed on January 8, 2004, and Defendant-Appellant Jason Lee Martin (Martin) appeals from the Judgment filed on March 17, 2004. Both Judgments were filed in the Circuit Court of the Fifth Circuit1 (circuit court).

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On April 5, 2002, pursuant to a search warrant for Iwatate, Iwatate was stopped by police as he was driving his father’s pickup truck, in which Martin was a passenger. The search warrant authorized the police to search: “The person of Richard Iwatate…