Legal Opinion
State v. Cobbs
New Mexico Court of Appeals
Decided November 12, 1985No. 8631PublishedCited by 54 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BIVINS, Judge.
From an order suppressing evidence, the state appeals. NMSA 1978, § 39-3-3(B). We reverse and remand.
In its docketing statement, the state raised two issues. The first issue was whether the patdown search of the defendant was justified, and, second, whether the search of the defendant’s jacket pockets exceeded the permissible scope of a pat-down search for weapons. With the filing of its brief-in-chief, the state moved to amend its docketing statement to add two additional arguments: first, whether the discovery of a syringe during the patdown provided probable cause for…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- People v. BenjaminNew York Court of Appeals · 1980
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3Cited by54 opinions
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