STATE v. LOPEZ

No. 920319.

873 P.2d 1127 (1994)

STATE of Utah, Plaintiff, Petitioner, and Cross-Respondent, v. Gerard Cotero J. LOPEZ, Defendant, Respondent, and Cross-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Utah.

April 25, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Paul Van Dam, Atty. Gen., J. Kevin Murphy, David B. Thompson, Asst. Attys. Gen., Salt Lake City, for plaintiff.

James A. Valdez, Joan C. Watt, Elizabeth Holbrook, Salt Lake City, for defendant.


HOWE, Justice:

The trial court granted defendant's motion to suppress the cocaine that police officers found in his vehicle during an inventory search. The State filed a petition for interlocutory review with the court of appeals, which granted the petition and reversed the suppression order. The court of appeals held that the trial court had misapplied the pretext stop doctrine and had failed to enter adequate findings of fact on reasonable suspicion. State v...

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