State v. Wilkes

DIETZ, Judge.

*385 This case began when law enforcement discovered an abandoned, burned car with a woman's body inside. Officers arrested Defendant *386 Jermaine Wilkes and, during questioning after his arrest, Wilkes implicated himself in the woman's murder.

Wilkes later moved to suppress those incriminating statements on the ground that law enforcement lacked probable cause to arrest him. The trial court denied the motion to suppress and Wilkes challenges that denial on appeal.

As explained below, we reject Wilkes's arguments. At the time law enforcement arrested Wilkes, they had already visited the…