State v. Hummons

OPINION

BRUTINEL, Justice.

¶ 1 Michael Hummons was convicted of possessing a narcotic drug and drug paraphernalia. The court of appeals affirmed, holding that the trial court did not err in denying a motion to suppress evidence found during a search incident to arrest. Assuming Hummons had been illegally detained, the court of appeals found that the arresting officer’s search was incident to an arrest on an outstanding warrant and, therefore, sufficiently attenuated from the illegal detention so as to avoid suppression. State v. Hum-mons, 225 Ariz. 254, 257-58 ¶¶ 8-11, 236 P.3d 1201, 1204-05…