State v. Massenburg

WEBB, Judge.

Defendant assigns as error the admission into evidence of the heroin found in the locked glove compartment of his automobile. He first argues, relying on State v. Thompson, 296 N.C. 703, 252 S.E. 2d 776, cert. denied, Thompson v. North Carolina, 444 U.S. 907, 100 S.Ct. 220, 62 L.Ed. 2d 143 (1979), that the officers had no right to approach his automobile. Thompson deals with the right of officers to approach and detain persons suspected of crime. It has no application to the approach of the officers to the defendant’s car in this case. The automobile was in a public parking lot.…