State v. Marcum

¶1 In this drug possession prosecution, the trial court suppressed physical evidence of four ounces *898of marijuana found in Jeffrey Marcum’s truck, as well as his admissions that he possessed and had recently used marijuana. The court then dismissed the charges against him. The State appeals. Because the trial court misapplied the law in determining whether an informant who implicated Marcum in drug activity was sufficiently reliable so as to entitle the police to act upon the information that the informant supplied, we hold that the court erred by suppressing the physical evidence based on its…