State v. Dearborn

¶ 1. This is a review of a published decision of the court of appeals1 affirming *257the circuit court's judgment of conviction against David A. Dearborn.2 Dearborn asserts that the circuit court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence obtained from a search of the passenger compartment of his locked vehicle, a search that occurred after he was placed under arrest and secured in the back of a squad car.

¶ 2. Dearborn maintains, and the State concedes, that in the wake of the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S._, 129 S. Ct. 1710 (2009), the search of…