State v. Lowell

This criminal appeal concerns defendant’s motion to suppress evidence. After defendant crashed his bicycle into a car and was injured, he separately interacted with two police officers. A police officer at the accident scene ordered him to go to the hospital. A second police officer, who was investigating the accident, arrived after defendant requested treatment at the hospital, entered his treatment room, and smelled marijuana. That officer asked for and obtained defendant’s consent to search the backpack and discovered in it marijuana and other related paraphernalia, including a digital…