State v. McCarthy

Barnes, Chief Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court’s order granting Mark McCarthy’s motion to suppress evidence gathered in connection with a warrantless search of his bag, arguing that the search was legal (1) as incident to the arrest of either McCarthy or Lia Puckett, a co-defendant, (2) because McCarthy had no expectation of privacy and no standing to challenge the search, and (3) as an inventory search. For reasons that follow, we affirm the trial court’s grant of the motion to suppress.

In reviewing a trial court’s grant of a motion to suppress, we construe the evidence most…