Legal Opinion
State v. Vigne
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided October 3, 2001No. 2001-K-0902Published
1Opinion of the Court
1MIRIAM G. WALTZER, Judge.
The state applied for supervisory jurisdiction seeking reversal of the trial court’s order granting the defendant’s motion to suppress certain evidence seized pursuant to a search warrant. For the following reasons, we grant the state’s writ application and reverse the order suppressing the evidence.
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
On 20 February 2000, Byron Vigne was charged with one count of possession of at least 200 but less than 400 grams of cocaine, a charge to which he subsequently pled not guilty. The court heard the motion to suppress the evidence on 6 March 2001, and…
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