Opinion ID: 2225166
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: additional evidence on remand

Text: Two detectives, Zeb Simones and John Stuck, who investigated drug crimes for the Bellevue Police Department, arrested Gorup. Simones was the only witness to testify at the original suppression hearing. At the second suppression hearing after remand, the court received Stuck's deposition. Both detectives testified that they immediately handcuffed Gorup after he identified himself. Stuck testified that they first asked Gorup to step outside and that Simones entered the apartment while Stuck was handcuffing Gorup. Stuck stated that he believed at this time there was a valid felony arrest warrant for Gorup. The record fails to show an arrest warrant. Stuck also knew that another police officer had gone to Gorup's apartment about 2 weeks earlier and asked Gorup for consent to search his apartment. Stuck knew that Gorup had refused to give that officer consent to search. Stuck testified that when he handcuffed Gorup, he was outside the apartment door in the hallway. Stuck stated that he was accompanied by a uniformed officer, who was standing directly in front of Gorup and had a patrol car parked just outside the apartment building. He testified that about 5 minutes after Simones found the methamphetamine in the black bag, Stuck and the officer placed Gorup in the patrol car. Stuck stated that as they were taking Gorup outside the apartment building, Simones showed Stuck the contents of the black bag but that Gorup was far enough away that he could not have seen the bag. On cross-examination, however, Stuck stated that it was probably closer to 1 to 2 minutes from the time he handcuffed Gorup until he and the officer placed Gorup into the patrol car. He stated that the protective sweep search took 1 to 2 minutes and that the search incident to arrest took 1 minute. Stuck did not state that the detectives had to wait for a uniformed officer to arrive in a patrol car before they could transport Gorup. Stuck also explained where Gorup was standing while Simones conducted the search incident to arrest inside Gorup's apartment. He testified that during this search, Gorup stood handcuffed just outside the door, with the door to Gorup's immediate left. He stated that Simones found the black zippered bag on a table a little over an arm's length from the door. And he said that Gorup was a little in front of the doorjamb and would have needed to lean backward to see inside the apartment. He said that Gorup did not do this.