Legal Opinion

State v. Bridges

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 31, 1997No. 02S01-9606-CC-00053Published

1Opinion of the Court

963 S.W.2d 487 (1997)

STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff-Appellee,

v.

Ray Anthony BRIDGES, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

December 31, 1997.

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Gordon W. Smith, Associate Solicitor General, Nashville, G. Robert "Gus" Radford, District Attorney General, Huntingdon, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Larry E. Fitzgerald, Memphis, for Defendant-Appellant.

OPINION

2Per curiam

The primary issue in this appeal is whether the warrantless seizure of cocaine from the defendant's person during a detention and frisk was…

Also in this document: Concurring in part, dissenting in part · Drowota; Concurring in part, dissenting in part · Reid.

3Cases cited56 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  4. Chimel v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  5. Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969

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