State v. Copeland

Keller, P.J.,

filed a dissenting opinion in which Yeary, J., joined.

The trial court granted appellee’s motion to suppress evidence and made findings of fact. These findings of fact related to whether the police had effective consent to search a car in which appellee was a passenger.1 During the course of the appellate process, it was determined that these findings were not sufficient to justify granting the suppression motion.2 At the trial level, however, appellee litigated a separate legal theory that is not addressed by the trial court’s findings—whether the length of detention was…