State v. Kock

Defendant petitions this court to reverse his conviction for theft of a package of diapers from his employer’s store, claiming that the Court of Appeals erred when it upheld the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress crime evidence seized from his automobile. He asserted that the police lacked probable cause and exigent circumstances to conduct a warrantless search of his car or to seize the package, that they lacked probable cause to arrest him and that the search of his car and seizure of the package were not reasonably incident to a valid arrest. The Court of Appeals held that the…