State v. Crane

JIM HANNAH, Chief Justice.

|,The State brings this interlocutory appeal pursuant to Arkansas Rule of Appellate Procedure — Criminal 3 (2014) and contends that the circuit court erred in granting appellee Stephen Crane’s motion to suppress. On appeal, the State contends that, because the material-witness rule does not apply to search-and-seizure cases, the circuit court erred as a matter of law by concluding that additional officer testimony was required to support the “pat down” of Crane. The State also contends that the circuit court erred as a matter of law when it found that a warrant was…