Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Crowder
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided September 29, 1994No. 93-SC-288-DGPublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN M. ROSENBERG, Special Justice.
The issue in this case is whether the seizure of a “bindle”1 of drugs incident to a Terry2 patdown search violated the prohibition on “unreasonable searches and seizures” in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and § 10 of the Kentucky Constitution.
The facts are these. On May 4, 1991, twelve days prior to the incident involved in this proceeding, Appellee, Arthur Crowder, was arrested on a charge of trafficking in marijuana by Louisville police officer Brian Nunn, one of the arresting officers in this case. The place of the arrest on…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- United States v. LeonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- Adams v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- Sibron v. New YorkSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Michigan v. LongSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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3Cited by27 opinions
- Commonwealth v. ZhahirSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 2000
- Commonwealth v. WilsonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 2004
- State v. TrineSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1996
- Commonwealth v. WhitmoreKentucky Supreme Court · 2002
- Baltimore v. CommonwealthCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 2003
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