Legal Opinion

Young v. State

Supreme Court of Delaware

Decided May 15, 1975PublishedCited by 13 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DUFFY, Justice:

The sole issue in this appeal from a conviction for misdemeanor-theft, 11 Del.C. § 841, is whether the Trial Court should have granted a motion to suppress a television set retained by the police when defendant was released without charge after a two-hour detention. 11 Del.C. § 1902.

I

The State’s evidence was as follows:

About 6 P.M. on January 16, 1974, two police officers, in plain clothes and an unmarked car proceeding south on Market Street, stopped for a red traffic signal af Fourteenth Street. A 1967 Buick Riviera stopped, parallel to them, at the same place; two males were…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. HaydenSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Elkins v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  4. Harris v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  5. State v. ElkinsOregon Supreme Court · 1966

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3Cited by13 opinions

  1. Delaware v. ProuseSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  2. Hunter v. StateSupreme Court of Delaware · 2001
  3. People v. DixonMichigan Court of Appeals · 1978
  4. People v. PaceCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1979
  5. People v. Harold WilliamsMichigan Court of Appeals · 1975

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