State v. Mantle

PREWITT, Judge.

The state appeals, as is allowed in § 547.200.1(2), RSMo 1986, from an order of the trial court sustaining defendant’s motion to suppress. The motion sought to suppress evidence relating to marihuana found in the trunk of an automobile searched without a search warrant or the consent of the automobile’s occupants.

The state contends that the evidence established that the motion should have been denied because the officers had probable cause to search the vehicle and the marihuana “would have inevitably been discovered pursuant to an inventory search of the vehicle.”

Review here…