State v. Blais

The State brings this interlocutory appeal from a district court judgment, which suppressed testimonial and physical evidence acquired following defendant’s warrantless arrest on the ground there was no probable cause for the arrest. We affirm.

The trial court made the following findings. In a “fly-over,” state police officers observed what they suspected was marijuana growing in a thickly wooded area between a corn field and a campground. Two police officers went to the area, via a thirty-to-forty-foot path from the campground, and found about eighty-five marijuana plants, in a clearing,…