State v. Siqueiros

OPINION

RICHMOND, Chief Judge.

Appellant’s conviction of voluntary manslaughter must be reversed under Mincey v. Arizona, 437 U.S. 385, 98 S.Ct. 2408, 57 L.Ed.2d 290 (1978). His motion to suppress evidence seized by the police in a warrant-less search of his apartment was denied by the trial court in reliance on State v. Mincey, 115 Ariz. 472, 566 P.2d 273 (1977), which subsequently was reversed on certiorari by the Supreme Court of the United States. Questions remain as to what other evidence is admissible at retrial.

On February 21, 1977, Richard Munoz, a patrolman with the uniformed division…