State v. Fields

This is an appeal from an order quashing a search warrant and suppressing the evidence obtained pursuant thereto. Defendants were charged with violating RCW 9.68.010 which makes it a gross misdemeanor to exhibit certain obscene materials. The search warrant had been *127issued under authority of our new criminal rules, specifically CrR 2.3 (b) which, among other matters, authorizes a search warrant to search for and seize evidence of a crime. We reverse.

The trial court reasoned that the statute, RCW 10.79.015, which authorizes search warrants, limits, so far as applicable here, issuance of…