State v. Millan

¶1 Francisco J. Millan appeals his first degree unlawful possession of a firearm conviction. The charge was filed after police, who were responding to a citizen’s report that a man and woman were fighting in a car, arrested Millan and seized the firearm they found during the search of the vehicle incident to Millan’s arrest. For the first time on appeal, Millan argues that under the United States Supreme Court’s recent decision in Arizona v. Gant,_U.S._, 129 S. Ct. 1710, 173 L. Ed. 2d 485 (2009), the search of his vehicle was unlawful and the firearm must be suppressed. But Millan waived his…