State v. Gray

HEDRICK, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the trial court’s finding and conclusion that the search of the defendant and the seizure of the pills from defendant were pursuant to a lawful arrest. This assignment of error may be resolved by an inquiry into the propriety of each stage in the chain of events beginning with the original detention of defendant by Deputy Herman and including the subsequent arrest of defendant, the search of defendant after the arrest, and Deputy Herman’s seizure of the pills found upon searching defendant.

A police officer’s limited investigatory detention of an…