State v. Quino

*163OPINION OF THE COURT BY

KLEIN, J.

Defendant-Appellant Ferdinand Q. Quino (Quino) was convicted of promoting a dangerous drug in the first degree in violation of Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS) § 712-1241(l)(a)(i) (Supp. 1991). The circuit court denied Quino’s pre-trial motion to suppress evidence. Subsequently, Quino was found guilty by a circuit court jury and sentenced to incarceration for a term of twenty years. On appeal before the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA), Quino argued that the circuit court should have granted his motion to suppress, because the evidence recovered was the product…