STATE v. MERRILL

No. 94-1649.

538 N.W.2d 300 (1995)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Sean Phillip MERRILL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

September 20, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Del Gallo, State Appellate Defender, and Sarah E. Hennesy, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Thomas G. Fisher, Jr., Assistant Attorney General, and Connie Ricklefs, County Attorney, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and HARRIS, CARTER, SNELL, and ANDREASEN, JJ.


PER CURIAM.

The question in the present case is whether the district court erred in overruling the defendant's motion to suppress a bag of marijuana and a pipe found on his person by the police after they stopped the car in which he was a passenger to arrest the driver on an outstanding warrant. We affirm.

On the evening of April 15, 1994, officer Russell Collier of the Anamosa Police Department stopped a white Camaro driven by William Curtis because an arrest...

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