Legal Opinion
Verez v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Decided November 27, 1985No. Record Nos. 841111, 841114PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRussell, J.
In these cases the police entered a motel room without a search warrant or an arrest warrant, seized cocaine in plain view, and arrested the occupants. The defendants’ consolidated appeals, based on the same set of facts, challenge the legality of these actions by the police.
Officers of the Virginia State Police and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (D.E.A.) had concluded that Luis Manuel Verez was engaged in the transportation of cocaine in kilogram lots from Florida to Northern Virginia. Verez had sold cocaine periodically over a five-year period to Raymond Cunningham and Russell…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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- McDonald v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Welsh v. WisconsinSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
- United States v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of MichiganSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by63 opinions
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