State v. Romero

STEWART, Justice:

Defendant seeks reversal of a second-degree felony conviction of theft by receiving. The issues raised involve the legality of a motor vehicle search and the admissibility of subsequently derived evidence, the adequacy of the affidavit for a search warrant, the correctness of the court’s refusal to compel disclosure of an informant’s identity, and the constitutionality of relying on information allegedly obtained from a privileged attorney-client communication.

On August 25, 1979, defendant was stopped while driving a pickup truck and arrested on a matter not in issue here by…