STATE v. VILLANUEVA

Nos. 11511, 11560.

796 P.2d 252 (1990)

110 N.M. 359

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jose Mario VILLANUEVA, Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeals of New Mexico.

Certiorari Denied June 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hal Stratton, Atty. Gen., and Margaret B. Alcock, Asst. Atty. Gen., Santa Fe, for plaintiff-appellant.

Timothy M. Padilla, Timothy M. Padilla & Associates, P.C., Albuquerque, for defendant-appellee.


OPINION

DONNELLY, Judge.

Both the state and defendant pursue interlocutory appeals from an order granting in part and denying in part defendant's motion for suppression of evidence seized at a border checkpoint. We discuss: (1) whether the border patrol's stop of a commercial bus in which defendant was a passenger, and the use of a narcotics detection dog to sniff the bus luggage compartments, constituted an illegal search; (2) whether the court erred in...

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