STATE v. COHEN

No. 1 CA-CR 97-0219.

957 P.2d 1014 (1998)

191 Ariz. 471

STATE of Arizona, Appellant, v. River Albion Elijah COHEN, aka River Coe, aka Robert Cohen, aka Scott Messino; and Nick Candelaria, aka Mike Merro, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department C.

Review Denied November 17, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant Woods, Attorney General by Paul J. McMurdie, Chief Counsel Criminal Division and Consuelo M. Ohanesian, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, for Appellant.

Eleanor L. Miller, Phoenix, for Appellee Candelaria.

Thomas A. Thinnes, Phoenix, for Appellee Cohen.


OPINION

NOYES, Judge.

¶ 1 The trial court suppressed evidence on grounds that police officers violated Arizona's "knock and announce" rule when they executed a search warrant by breaking into Defendants' home. The State appealed, and we affirm the trial court.

¶ 2 Believing that Defendants were shipping large quantities of marijuana out of state, Tempe police officers surveilled them. After seeing a large quantity of marijuana being carried...

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