State of Minnesota v. Jimmy Dawayne Lester

OPINION

WRIGHT, Justice.

In this appeal from a judgment of conviction of third-degree possession of a controlled substance, respondent Jimmy Da-wayne Lester argues that the heroin seized from the car he was driving must be suppressed because the police unlawfully searched the car. Although the district court denied Lester’s motion to suppress the heroin, the court of appeals reversed after concluding that the police did not have probable cause to arrest Lester or to search the car he was driving. State v. Lester, No. A14-0431, 2015 WL 1608701 (Minn.App. Apr. 13, 2015). We hold that the…