Powell v. State

*42OPINION

By the Court,

Shearing, J.:

This case comes to us on remand from the United States Supreme Court. The United States Supreme Court determined that this court erred in failing to apply County of Riverside v. McLaughlin, 500 U.S. 44 (1991), retroactively to the case of Kitrich Powell. The case was remanded to this court for a determination of the appropriate remedy for the delay in determining probable cause and for a determination as to whether harmless error analysis applies.1

Police arrested Powell without a warrant on Friday, November 3, 1989, for felony child abuse of his girlfriend’s…