Legal Opinion

State v. Gates

Louisiana Court of Appeal

Decided May 15, 2013No. 47,894-KWPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the CourtStewart, J.

| Nhe State of Louisiana (“the state”) applied for supervisory review of a trial court’s ruling granting a motion to suppress filed by the defendant, John Emmitt Gates, who was charged with DWI, third offense. The basis of the motion to suppress was that the stop was made by an officer outside of his jurisdiction. Finding that the trial court did not abuse its great discretion in granting the defendant’s motion to suppress, we now affirm.

FACTS

The following evidence was adduced at the hearing on the defendant’s motion to suppress. At around 9:00 p.m. on November 11, 2011, Brian Bell, a…

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