Legal Opinion

State v. Thompson

Supreme Court of Missouri

Decided March 11, 1968No. 52958PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

WELBORN, Commissioner.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction for possession of narcotic drugs, with punishment, under the second offender act, of seven years’ imprisonment.

On July 26, 1966, at around 9:30 in the evening, the appellant, Michael Alvin Thompson, was noticed by St. Louis police officers as he started his 1964 Oldsmobile convertible at the stop light at Delmar and Goodfellow. Because Thompson “squealed” his tires as he made a left turn from Goodfellow onto Delmar, the police officers, riding in a police car, pursued Thompson, with their red spotlight flashing. Thompson…

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2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Mapp v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1961
  2. Melvin L. Brown v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1966
  3. State v. MeiersSupreme Court of Missouri · 1967
  4. Charles Earl McNeely v. United States of America, Robert Eugene Johnson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1965
  5. State v. HayzlettSupreme Court of Missouri · 1954

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. State v. TerrySupreme Court of Missouri · 1971
  2. State v. CarterSupreme Court of Missouri · 1972
  3. State v. LoveMissouri Court of Appeals · 1976
  4. State v. EllisMissouri Court of Appeals · 1986
  5. State v. SechrestSupreme Court of Missouri · 1972

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