State v. Garcia

{1} The prior opinion of the court is withdrawn and the following is substituted. This case poses the question of whether Defendant Maria Garcias general consent to search a vehicle by responding "yes" to an officers inquiry to "look at" a compartment on the vehicle was broad enough to allow the police officers to drill a hole in the compartment, thereby damaging the property. We hold that her consent to a general search was not a consent to allow the officers to damage the property. We reverse Defendants conviction and order that the motion to suppress be granted.