Legal Opinion
State v. Gomez
Court of Appeals of Utah
Decided April 5, 2012No. 20100486-CAPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
VOROS, Associate Presiding Judge:
{1 The encounter at issue in this appeal began with a traffic stop and ended with the search of a hotel room. Defendant Luis Parra Gomez consented to the search, but challenges the voluntariness of that consent. We affirm.
BACKGROUND 1
2 Around midnight on August 3, 2008, on University Parkway in Orem, Officer Seott Speeth stopped a car for a taillight violation. The car, a rental, held three occupants. Go mez was in the back seat. When the officer approached the car and requested the driver's identification, he noticed that Gomez was not wearing a seat…
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