State v. Burton

BARRY, Judge.

The defendant was convicted of simple possession of heroin, La.R.S. 40:966, and sentenced to four years at hard labor with credit for time served, without benefit of probation or suspension of sentence. The three assignments of error relate to the denial of his motion to suppress.

Officers Steve Nicholas and Bruce Little set up a surveillance for drug trafficking at the comer of Gallier St. and Florida Ave. in the Florida Housing Project, a known trafficking location where Little had previously made numerous drug-related arrests. Little also received information from a…