State v. Martinez

Donald L. Corbin, Justice.

The state brings this interlocutory appeal from an order of the Johnson Circuit Court granting appellees’ pretrial motion to suppress evidence. Ark. R. Crim. P. 36.10. The sole issue presented in this appeal is whether the trial court erred in ruling the evidence seized be suppressed due to an invalid nighttime search warrant. We affirm.

In reviewing a trial court’s decision to grant a defendant’s motion to suppress evidence, we make an independent determination based on the totality of the circumstances and reverse the trial court’s decision only if it is clearly…