State v. Burke

BURNETT, Judge.

John Edward Burke stands convicted of possessing marijuana with intent to deliver. On appeal he contends that the marijuana and other related evidence should have been suppressed because they were obtained, directly or indirectly, through a search and a police interrogation in Canada that did not meet American constitutional standards. He also attacks the legality of searches conducted in Idaho. Moreover, he raises a host of challenges to the fairness of his trial, urging that the trial was tainted by newspaper publicity, by admission of hearsay evidence, by denial of his right…