State v. Slater

liSTEWART, Judge.

Defendant, Richard Slater, was stopped by a state trooper on 1-20 in Ouachita Parish for traveling 68 M.P.H. in a 55 M.P.H. zone. After a license and registration check revealed that both the defendant and the person in whose name defendant’s vehicle was rented had prior drug-related convictions, the trooper became suspicious. When the trooper approached the vehicle, he smelled marijuana. The defendant gave the trooper permission to search the car; the search yielded 102 pounds of marijuana in the trunk. Defendant related that he was to be paid $3,000 to transport the drugs…