State v. Lee

Justice WALLACE, JR.

delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case, defendant appeals from the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief and, specifically, from the denial of his motion for discovery to support his claim that his vehicle stop emanated from racial profiling. In denying that motion, the court found that even assuming defendant was correct in his claim, the drug evidence obtained after the stop would not be excluded because defendant’s assault on the officer purged the taint of the initial stop. Following the denial of his petition, defendant appealed. With one judge…