State v. Strickling

OPINION

ORME, Judge:

Defendant appeals the district court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence based on the arguments that the police officer had no articulable suspicion to stop defendant’s car and that the ensuing inventory search of his vehicle was illegal. We affirm.

STANDARD OF REVIEW

This court defers to the trial court’s factual findings and accordingly will disturb those findings only if they are clearly erroneous. See State v. Bobo, 803 P.2d 1268, 1272 (Utah App.1990); State v. Elder, 815 P.2d 1341, 1343 (Utah App.1991). See also United States v. Kordosky, 878 F.2d 991, 993 (7th…