State v. Blais

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendants were charged by indictment 1 with armed robbery, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 651(1)(E) (Supp.1979). In its interlocutory appeal from a pretrial order, 15 M.R.S.A. § 2115-A (1980), the State asserts that the 1 Superior Court erred by suppressing, for use at any later trial, the contents of a large, opaque plastic bag found in the trunk of defendants’ car during a warrantless search. The Superior Court’s decision was grounded on its conclusions that defendants had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of the bag and that there were no exigent circumstances…