Legal Opinion

Bonsness v. State

Wyoming Supreme Court

Decided December 8, 1983No. 83-94PublishedCited by 41 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

BROWN, Justice.

Appellant Chad Bonsness was convicted of possession of a controlled substance after police officers, executing a search warrant, discovered marijuana and other contraband in his apartment. Before and during trial, Bonsness moved to suppress evidence seized during the search due to an allegedly defective affidavit which supported the search warrant. The district court denied the motion to suppress.

We affirm.

On October 29, 1982, Detective Martin Wozniak of the Gillette Police Department arrested and questioned Richard Bernier about an attempted vehicular break-in. During the…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Illinois v. GatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
  2. Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  3. Spinelli v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1969
  4. Jones v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1960
  5. United States v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 1971

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3Cited by41 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. UptonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
  2. State v. CordovaNew Mexico Supreme Court · 1989
  3. United States v. Dennis Swingler, Jack E. Houser, Jr., Ralph W. Vicory, James D. Jahnke, Jerald W. Richardson, Larry Lee RichardsonCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1985
  4. State v. RingquistNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1988
  5. State Ex Rel. Hopkinson v. District Court, Teton CountyWyoming Supreme Court · 1985

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