State v. Young

John W. Young, Jr., appeals his conviction of second degree burglary. His contentions on appeal are that the warrantless seizure of incriminating evidence from an automobile and his warrantless arrest violated the federal and state constitutional prohibitions against unreasonable searches and seizures. We find that the police officers' actions were reasonable under the circumstances. Accordingly, we affirm the conviction.

The evidence presented at the suppression hearing established the following sequence of events. Shortly before 2 a.m. on March 11, 1979, Dennis Niles, a Lacey police officer…