Legal Opinion
State v. Mendoza-Ruiz
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided July 29, 2010No. 1 CA-CR 009-0560PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HALL, Judge.
¶ 1 The state appeals from the trial court’s order granting Gustavo Mendoza-Ruiz’s (defendant) motion to suppress a handgun that a police officer removed from defendant’s track. For the reasons that follow, we vacate the suppression order.
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND
¶2 The evidence presented at the suppression hearing is as follows. 1 In the early morning hours of November 1, 2008, Officer N.D. of the Phoenix Police Department responded to a report of two men in a pickup truck stealing a spare tire. N.D. found a Ford F-150 pickup truck matching the description of the…
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