Legal Opinion

Mers v. State

Indiana Court of Appeals

Decided September 23, 1985No. 2-384A75PublishedCited by 22 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

SHIELDS, Judge.

Stephen Mers appeals his conviction in a jury trial of theft, a class D felony under Ind.Code § 85-48-4-2(a) (1982). Mers raises four issues for our review, but because we are required to remand the case to the trial court, we discuss only two:1

1) whether the issuance of a search warrant for Mers's vehicle was supported by an adequate probable cause affidavit, and

2) whether the defendant was tried by a fair and impartial jury?

Facts

Sometime between 8:80 p.m. on November 16, 1982 and 1:80 a.m. the next day, the Starland Arcade in Upland (Grant County), Indiana was forcibly…

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2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  2. Boyd v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
  3. Weeks v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  4. State v. ArringtonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1984
  5. State v. ColsonSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1968

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3Cited by22 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. EdmundsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1991
  2. State v. MarsalaSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1990
  3. State v. JohnsonIdaho Supreme Court · 1986
  4. Hopkins v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1991
  5. State v. DiazSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1993

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