Walsh v. State

This is an appeal by the defendant Lee Harold Walsh, Jr. from a final judgment of conviction for trafficking in cocaine entered below after an adverse jury verdict. We affirm based on the following briefly stated legal analysis.

First, we conclude that the trial court properly denied the defendant’s motion to suppress. Without recounting the extensive details of the police investigation which led up to the defendant’s arrest in this case, suffice it to say there was ample probable cause to arrest the defendant and his companions. This being so, there was no basis to suppress the cocaine, gun,…