Colden v. State

Smith, Presiding Judge.

This appeal from a judgment in favor of the State in a property forfeiture case presents a procedural quagmire, combining the loss of all or part of the file, an indefinite stay of the proceedings, a motion to suppress filed by appellants Douglas Colden and Valerie Knowles, and a single omnibus hearing combining evidence and argument on the motion to suppress, a motion to dismiss, a motion for summary judgment, and the State’s case for forfeiture. Colden and Knowles appeal, enumerating as error the denial of their motion to suppress and the stay of proceedings. We do…