State v. Ashbury

GAUDIN, Judge.

This case concerns a police investigatory stop and frisk in a high crime area at approximately 3:25 a.m. The search of Claude Ashbury for weapons produced cocaine and drug paraphernalia, and Ashbury was later convicted of possession of cocaine.

On appeal, Ashbury argued (1) that his motion to suppress evidence was incorrectly denied because there were no grounds for the stop and (2) that the trial judge in the 24th Judicial District Court erred in ordering an indigent to pay a probation fee as a special condition of probation. Ash-bury was sentenced to two years in parish prison,…