State v. Boundy

Defendant was prosecuted for possessing cocaine that was found on the end of a dollar bill seized from her purse. She was a passenger in John Boundy’s car when the police stopped it. She got out of the car, with her purse, at the direction of an officer. The officer searched the purse and seized the bill. The majority decides that the police had probable cause to stop the car and, on that basis, sustains the search and seizure. Asserting that she never presented the arguments on appeal, it refuses to address her separate arguments that the police had no probable cause to search the purse and…