State v. Brown

¶1 Shane Brown pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver and *369second degree unlawful possession of a firearm in January 2009 and received a standard range sentence. On April 21, 2009, the United States Supreme Court decided Arizona v. Gant,1 in which it announced a new rule limiting the exception to the warrant requirement for searches incident to arrest. Mr. Brown argues that his lawyer’s failure to research and advise him of the pendency of Gant, which he contends applies squarely to his case and would have required suppression of the evidence against him,…