State v. Carey

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendant was charged by complaint in the District Court (Brunswick) with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, 29 M.R.S.A. § 1312 (1978), and leaving the scene of an accident resulting in personal injury, id § 893. In this direct interlocutory appeal from portions of a pretrial suppression order, 15 M.R.S.A. § 2115-A (1980), the State challenges the District Court’s decision to exclude from defendant’s trial certain evidence obtained as the “fruit” of his arrest by a Brunswick police officer who had pursued him into the contiguous…