State v. McLeod.

Hagen, Judge:

¶1 Ty William McLeod appeals the district court's denial of his motion to suppress drug evidence discovered during a search incident to arrest. McLeod contends that the evidence should be excluded because the officer's subjective basis for the arrest was a mistaken belief that McLeod was the subject of an active arrest warrant. In denying the motion to suppress, the district court ruled that the arrest was objectively justified. Notwithstanding the officer's mistaken subjective basis for arrest, the officer's observation of a hand-to-hand transaction gave rise to probable cause…