State v. Van Ackeren

Defendant was found guilty by a jury on a charge of receiving stolen property and sentenced to a term of 7 years in the Nebraska Penal and Correctional Complex. He appeals and assigns as error: (T) The overruling of a motion to suppress evidence seized in the search of an automobile belonging to Susan Humphrey, a companion of the defendant Van Aekeren. (2) The denial of defendant’s motion for a mistrial, the ground for which is a claimed violation of a pretrial order of the court directing the prosecuting witnesses not to describe the defendant as a known burglar or thief, or use other…