Legal Opinion

State v. Sanders

Court of Appeals of North Carolina

Decided November 2, 1993No. 9226SC1339PublishedCited by 17 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

MCCRODDEN, Judge.

Defendant attacks the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress on two bases: (1) the officers’ initial stop of him was an unreasonable detention, and (2) the search of him and the subsequent seizure of cocaine were unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. The evidence presented at the hearing on the motion to suppress tended to show the following. During the afternoon of 27 March 1992, Troopers V.C. Lessane and Brian Gregory of the North Carolina Highway Patrol set up a driver’s license check at the west ramp of North Carolina Highway 16 at Beattie’s Ford Road in…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  3. Delaware v. ProuseSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  4. Minnesota v. DickersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  5. State v. PeckSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1982

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3Cited by17 opinions

  1. State v. JohnsonCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2016
  2. State v. PulliamCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2000
  3. State v. GravesCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 1999
  4. State v. WinnCourt of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee · 1998
  5. State v. BriggsCourt of Appeals of North Carolina · 2000

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