State v. Crawford

The state appeals an order suppressing drugs and drug paraphernalia that law enforcement officers found inside Becky Crawford’s billfold. Crawford happened to be visiting a friend’s house when sheriff’s deputies executed a search warrant for the premises. The deputies patted her down for weapons, and when they pulled a hard object from her pocket a bag of marijuana came out with it. The deputies then searched her purse and the billfold inside it, finding crystal methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia inside the billfold. They arrested her, and the state charged her with possessing marijuana,…