Legal Opinion
State v. Hughes
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided December 21, 2000No. 59A00PublishedCited by 160 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FREEMAN, Justice.
This is an appeal as of right based on a dissent from the Court of Appeals below, reversing the trial court’s decision in a controlled substance case to grant defendant’s motion to suppress evidence. We conclude that the Court of Appeals erred, and we thus reverse that opinion.
On the morning of 13 March 1998, Detective Imhoff of the Jacksonville Police Department was sitting in the office of Captain Matthews of the Onslow County Sheriff’s Department when Matthews received a phone call. At the call’s conclusion, Matthews told Imhoff that he had been talking to a confidential,…
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