State v. Earl

Tom Glaze, Justice.

The State of Arkansas brings this interlocutory appeal of the trial court’s grant of appellee Hezile Earl, Jr.’s motion to suppress evidence seized during the warrant-less search of the cab of his truck after his having been stopped for a routine traffic violation. The State’s arguments for reversal challenge the trial court’s ruling as a matter of law because it failed to find that the warrantless search of Earl’s truck was proper since the search met an exception to the warrant requirement. Because the questions presented by the State necessarily turn on the…