Legal Opinion
State v. Tarantino
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided February 25, 1991PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROBERTS, Justice.
Francis Michael Tarantino entered conditional pleas of guilty to unlawful furnishing and trafficking in scheduled drugs. By this appeal, Tarantino challenges an order of the Superior Court (Waldo County, Smith J.) denying his motion to suppress contraband seized in a search of his ear. Because the search of Tarantino’s car was proper under the automobile exception to the warrant requirement, we affirm Tarantino’s convictions.
During the late afternoon of September 10, 1988, Deputy Kelvin Bickford of the Knox County Sheriff’s Department and two other Knox County deputies…
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