Legal Opinion
State v. Shaw
Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee
Decided June 10, 1980No. 79-96-IIIPublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DAUGHTREY, Judge.
In this appeal the State contests the trial court’s pretrial order suppressing evidence of the search and seizure of a quantity of cocaine from the appellee-defendant’s person and from his automobile. The trial judge held that the arresting officers' failure to secure a search warrant was in violation of the “exigent circumstances rule” of Rippy v. State, 550 S.W.2d 636, 640-41 (Tenn.1977).
The import of this ruling is not entirely clear from the record, but the trial judge was apparently referring to the Tennessee Supreme Court’s recognition in Rip-py that the Fourth…
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