Legal Opinion
Michigan v. Summers
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 22, 1981No. 79-1794PublishedCited by 1,835 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stevens
As Detroit police officers were about to execute a warrant to search a house for narcotics, they encountered respondent descending the front steps. They requested his assistance in gaining entry and detained him while they searched the premises. After finding narcotics in the basement and ascertaining that respondent owned the house, the police arrested him, searched his person, and found in his coat pocket an envelope containing 8.5 grams of heroin.1
*694Respondent was charged with possession of the heroin found on his person. He moved to suppress the heroin as the product of an illegal search in…
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