Legal Opinion
Ratliff v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided June 28, 2002No. 49S02-0112-CR-656PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
SULLIVAN, Justice.
Defendant Jason Ratliff appeals the trial court's denial of his request that evidence discovered in a search of the truck he crashed while fleeing police not be used against him. Finding that the evidence was discovered in a lawful inventory of the truck's contents, we affirm the trial court's decision.
Background
In October, 1999, the Louisiana State Police stopped a vehicle in which they found approximately sixty-four thousand doses of valium. The occupants of the car, Roberto Hernandez and Claudia Ortega, indicated that they intended to deliver the…
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