Opinion ID: 1090220
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 2

Heading: Whether the circuit court erred in denying the motion to suppress the results of the search of the apartment of Juarez and Larabel.

Text: ¶ 11. The State insists that this issue is barred from consideration because [Juarez and Larabel] failed to submit the search warrant affidavit with the record. According to the State, [w]ithout the affidavit, this honorable Court cannot determine whether a false statement was in fact made nor whether the allegedly false statement was necessary to the finding of probable cause.  (Emphasis added). ¶ 12. [T]here is a presumption that the judgment of the trial court is correct and the burden is on the Appellant to demonstrate some reversible error to this Court. Acker v. State, 797 So.2d 966, 971 (Miss.2001) (quoting Branch v. State, 347 So.2d 957, 958 (Miss.1977)). We have stated many times that it is the duty of the appellant to present a record of trial which is sufficient to support his assignments of error. Acker, 797 So.2d at 971 (quoting Peterson v. State, 518 So.2d 632, 638 (Miss. 1987) (citations omitted)). In Acker, this Court found that [t]here is no hearing transcript, and therefore no basis to support Acker's claim that the trial court erroneously denied her motion. Because of this fact, the presumption that the judgment of the trial court was correct must prevail. Id. ¶ 13. The search warrant affidavit is absent from the record before us. Without the contested affidavit, this Court is unable to determine whether probable cause existed vel non. See Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 171-72, 98 S.Ct. 2674, 2684-85, 57 L.Ed.2d 667, 682 (1978). As Juarez and Larabel have the duty to present a record of trial which is sufficient to support [their] assignments of error[,] Acker, 797 So.2d at 971, and there is a presumption that the judgment of the trial court was correct[,] id., this Court finds that the absence of the search warrant affidavit requires affirming the circuit court's denial of the motion to suppress.