State v. Galloway

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Herd, J.:

This is an interlocutory appeal by the State from an order of the trial court suppressing evidence in a criminal action.

The facts out of which this action arose are complicated. On May 12, 1981, at approximately 12:30 a.m., Ms. G, a Kansas University (KU) graduate student, was attacked by a black male as she walked home. The man forced her into his car and drove her to Clinton Park in Lawrence where he raped her and sodomized her. He then left the park taking with him Ms. G’s clothing, a set of keys to KU buildings issued to her, a backpack…