Legal Opinion
Morgan v. State
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided October 29, 1981No. 3-581A132PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STATON, Judge.
After a bench trial, Lyndell Morgan was convicted of illegally possessing morphine, 1 a class D felony, for which he received a two year sentence. Morgan contends on appeal that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress the morphine. He asserts that the morphine was inadmissible because the police obtained it after an unlawful investigatory stop of the van he was driving.
Affirmed.
The investigatory vehicle stop and war-rantless seizure of the morphine were not unlawful. The following evidence from the record supports our conclusions: Fort Wayne narcotics officers,…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Reid v. GeorgiaSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- Ludlow v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1974
- Cooper v. StateIndiana Court of Appeals · 1976
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3Cited by6 opinions
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- State v. NesiusIndiana Court of Appeals · 1990
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