State v. Patricella, 2505
| Decision Date | 30 May 1973 |
| Docket Number | No. 2505,2505 |
| Citation | 109 Ariz. 393,510 P.2d 39 |
| Parties | STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Anthony Thomas PATRICELLA, Appellant. |
| Court | Arizona Supreme Court |
Gary K. Nelson, Atty. Gen., by Thomas A. Jacobs, Asst. Atty. Gen., Phoenix, for appellee.
Vernon G. Lewter, Phoenix, for appellant.
After a trial by jury, defendant was convicted of burglary and grand theft with a prior conviction. He was sentenced to not less than 10 years nor more than 12 years on each count with the sentences to run concurrently.
A call was made to the police in the early morning hours of November 27, 1971, by a neighbor of the defendant who was awakened by loud noises and observed defendant and his family moving baby furniture into a storage shed. The police arrived, saw the furniture through the wide cracks in the shed, and arrested defendant, his wife, his daughter, and his nephew. Apparently, a truck parked at a nearby Baby Store had been burglarized that night.
The police thereafter talked to the remaining occupant of the apartment where the defendant lived--a stepdaughter who indicated that she was the renter of the apartment. When requested by the police, she gave them the combination to the lock on the shed door. The police opened the shed door and seized the items of baby furniture stored therein.
The first issue the defendant raises is that the trial court erred in failing to grant defendant's motion to suppress the evidence seized from the shed. He cites a number of cases which set forth the general rule of law in search and seizure cases, but none of which bear directly on the specific facts of this case. The trial judge, at the conclusion of the hearing on the motion to suppress and while ruling, stated 'Well, they didn't get that combination out of thin air.' He obviously indicated that he found consent to the search had been given.
In State v. Kananen, 97 Ariz. 233, 399 P.2d 426 (1965), we indicated that the State must prove consent by clear and positive evidence in unequivocal words or Conduct expressing consent. In the light of the circumstances here, we hold that by testimony of consent and conduct there is sufficient evidence to support the trial court's position. The evidence shows a request was made. The consenting person was not under arrest and therefore not subjected to the intimidation of that situation. Although there are inconsistencies in the testimony of the police officers, there was sufficient evidence to support the...
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