State of Arizona, Appellee v. Michael Quincy Hummons, Appellant

Summary

The court held that discovery of a valid arrest warrant after an assumed illegal detention is only minimally important in determining whether the taint has dissipated. Applying the totality of the circumstances, it concluded that the officer’s conduct was neither purposeful nor flagrant and upheld admission of the evidence discovered during the search incident to arrest. The court affirmed Hummons’s conviction but vacated the court of appeals’ opinion.