Tutu v. State

Blackburn, Chief Judge.

Following a bench trial, Claudia Olympia Tutu appeals her convictions for possession of cocaine and marijuana, contending that the trial court should have suppressed all evidence of the illegal drugs because: (1) the police improperly searched her truck incident to the arrest of her passenger and (2) the police improperly searched her purse which was lying on the floorboard of the truck. For the reasons Set forth below, we affirm.

On appeal from a denial of a motion to suppress, this Court must construe the evidence most favorably to uphold the ruling of the trial court.…