State v. Landry

EDWIN A. LOMBARD, Judge.

|! After review of the relator’s writ application in light of the applicable law, we do not find that the trial court abused its discretion in denying the relator’s motion to suppress the evidence and statements.

“[P]urely as an objective matter, the officers ultimately did nothing more than what the law entitled them to do by detaining defendant after observing him commit a misdemeanor offence in their presence and searching him for weapons and evidence, without regard to whether they had an articulable and particularized concern for their safety, and then arresting…