State v. Cooke

COPELAND, Justice.

We affirm the trial court’s entry of an order against the State suppressing the evidence seized from defendant’s suitcase.

The Court of Appeals correctly noted that the scope of appellate review of an order such as this is strictly limited to determining whether the trial judge’s underlying findings of fact are supported by competent evidence, in which event they are conclusively binding on appeal, and whether those factual findings in turn support the judge’s ultimate conclusions of law. 54 N.C. App. at 35, 282 S.E. 2d at 803; see State v. Thompson, 303 N.C. 169, 277 S.E. 2d…