Legal Opinion
State v. Belcher
Indiana Court of Appeals
Decided February 23, 2000No. 02A03-9906-CR-212PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FRIEDLANDER, Judge.
The State of Indiana charged Rodney Belcher with one count of carrying a handgun without a license, a class C felony, and one count of resisting law enforcement, a class A misdemeanor. Prior to trial, the trial court granted Belcher’s motion to suppress evidence relative to a handgun Belcher dropped at the time of his arrest. The State presents as the sole issue for review the correctness of that ruling.
We reverse.
The undisputed facts are that the southwest quadrant of the City of Fort Wayne is a high crime area. At approximately 3 a.m. on August 8, 1998, the Fort…
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