State v. Lee

The marijuana cigarettes and narcotic paraphernalia are found to be inadmissible by the majority because the executing officer corrected a typographical error in the warrant with the permission of the issuing judge. This strict and narrow interpretation of the law may have been supportable in this case if the warrant had described the premises by street and municipal number only. But here the warrant described the premises to be searched in more detail. It reads: “2132 BIENVILLE STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA. FRONT LEFT APARTMENT OF JERRY NEDD."

The change in the house number from 2127 to 2123,…