Legal Opinion
State v. Melendez
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided February 21, 1991No. 2 CA-CR 90-0633PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
HOWARD, Judge.
Appellee’s trial for murder has been stayed pending this appeal by the state of the trial court’s granting of appellee’s motion to suppress evidence seized from his prison cell and to preclude testimony by his inmate representative. We vacate and remand.
In March 1989, a Pima County Grand Jury indicted both appellee and his prison cellmate for the 1987 murder in the first degree of another inmate. 1 At the time of the murder, corrections officers followed a trail of blood from the murder scene to appellee’s cell. Officers ordered appellee to remove his blood-stained…
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