Legal Opinion
State v. Fortune
Supreme Court of Kansas
Decided October 26, 1984No. 56,426PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Holmes, J.:
This is an interlocutory appeal, pursuant to K.S.A. 22-3603, by the State of Kansas from an order of the district court suppressing certain physical evidence in a criminal prosecution. The evidence suppressed was recovered by police officers from the locked trunk of defendant’s automobile during an inventory search of the vehicle as a part of the procedure followed when a vehicle is impounded by police. The case was transferred from the Court of Appeals pursuant to K.S.A. 20-3018(c). The facts are not in dispute.
On August 1,1983, at 2:13…
2Cases cited29 opinions
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3Cited by35 opinions
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