Court Opinion

ID: 9682241
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 08:08:18.355131+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:17:38.384084
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SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON DENIAL OF REHEARING CR 96-826 940 S.W.2d 440 Petition for Review from the Arkansas Court of Appeals. Donald L. Corbin, Justice. Our decision in this case affirming the trial court was delivered on March 17, 1997. Appellant filed a petition for rehearing, which was submitted to us on April 14, 1997. In his petition, Appellant asserted that Officer Breckon lacked probable cause to arrest him and that our reliance on Maryland v. Wilson,_U.S._, 117 S. Ct. 882 (1997) was misplaced. In its response, Appellee agreed with Appellant that our reliance on Wilson was misplaced, but nonetheless contended that there was probable cause to arrest Appellant. Because we agree with Appellee, we deny rehearing of this case and issue this supplemental opinion for the purpose of correcting our error. Although we viewed our citation to Wilson as merely collateral, rather than controlling authority, we supplement our decision to clarify our position. We agree with both parties that our reference to the balancing test provided in Wilson may have been misplaced. Nonetheless, we view our inclusion of that test as extraneous, and we affirm the trial court on the ground that the search of Appellant was valid as incident to his lawful arrest.