State v. Johnson

In this aggravated murder case, the state appeals from a pretrial ruling that suppressed certain evidence. The police seized the evidence in question pursuant to a warrant. The issue before us is whether the trial court erred in suppressing that evidence on the ground that the seizure was tainted by an earlier, unlawful seizure of the same evidence. For the reasons that follow, we conclude that, on the record before us, the trial court did not err.

The underlying charge involves the death of Harriet Thompson, who was stabbed to death in her home on or about March 20,1998. (The uncertainty…