State v. Christensen

STEWART, Justice:

This is an interlocutory appeal from a motion to suppress a container seized from the defendant’s truck and a statement by the defendant that he was the owner and driver of the truck. The defendant was charged with assault by a prisoner. At a pre-trial hearing, the defendant moved to suppress the above evidence, and the trial court granted the motion. We reverse in part, affirm in part and remand.

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On September 24, 1981, the Layton City Police Department received a citizen’s report that a pickup truck with a house trailer in tow was stalled in a road and that a man was seen…