State v. Holbron

This appeal by defendant-appellant Leroy Lawrence Holbron (hereinafter “appellant”) from his jury conviction of promoting a detrimental drug in the first degree under HRS § 7l2-1247(l)(e) (1976) 1 raises the question of whether the trial court erred in denying his pretrial motion to suppress incriminating evidence seized by the police under a search warrant. He contends that the initial search to support probable cause for the search warrant was done in violation of his constitutional rights. 2

Honolulu police officer Mark Logan received an anonymous telephone message reporting that…