State v. Thomas

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Gavis V. Thomas was on felony probation, and one of his conditions of probation required him to submit to searches for controlled substances. During one such search, a police officer found crack cocaine in Thomas’s wallet, and this discovery led to Thomas’s indictment for fourth-degree controlled substance misconduct.

Following his indictment, Thomas asked the superior court to suppress the cocaine found in his wallet. Thomas argued that even though the search was conducted within the bounds of his probation condition, the judge who sentenced him for the prior felony…