Legal Opinion

Kevin M. Clark v. State of Indiana

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided September 17, 2013No. 20S05-1301-CR-10PublishedCited by 220 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DAVID, Justice.

When two police officers encountered three men in a self-storage facility and ordered them to the ground, the men were protected by the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. When those protections were violated, the evidence obtained as a result was tainted and should have been suppressed at a subsequent trial of one of the men. Because that evidence was instead admitted after the violation of the man’s federal constitutional rights, we must now reverse his conviction and remand.

Facts and Procedural History

Robert Dunlap owned a self-storage facility in Elkhart…

2Cases cited50 opinions

  1. Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  2. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  3. Wong Sun v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  4. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  5. United States v. MendenhallSupreme Court of the United States · 1980

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3Cited by220 opinions

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