Legal Opinion

State v. Barclay

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided March 7, 1979PublishedCited by 24 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

POMEROY, Justice.

In the District Court, Barclay was adjudicated to have committed a civil violation by possessing a usable amount of marijuana in violation of 22 M.R.S.A. § 2383 (Supp.1978). 1 His appeal to the Superior Court from such adjudication was there denied. He now appeals from such denial.

We deny the appeal.

A court approved stipulation of facts reveals the following. In the early evening of October 30, 1976, Officer Richard Comstock of the Livermore Falls Police Department stopped a vehicle for what he believed was a faulty exhaust system. See 29 M.R.S.A. § 1364. As he approached the…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
  2. Chambers v. MaroneySupreme Court of the United States · 1970
  3. Camara v. Municipal Court of City and County of San FranciscoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  4. Frank v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1959
  5. United States v. Ricardo Pablo BarronCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1973

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3Cited by24 opinions

  1. State v. MooreOhio Supreme Court · 2000
  2. Commonwealth v. CruzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2011
  3. State v. RandSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1981
  4. State v. MooreOhio Supreme Court · 2000
  5. State v. BoilardSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1985

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