State v. Williamson

This ease concerns the validity of a search following an automobile stop. The Appellate Division remanded the matter for a new hearing on defendant’s motion to suppress drugs seized from his car. The facts of the case are set forth in the opinion of the Appellate Division, 270 N.J.Super. 318, 637 A.2d 195 (1994).

We granted certification, 136 N.J. 298, 642 A.2d 1007 (1994), to consider whether the Appellate Division’s opinion placed too great a burden on the State to justify the stop. The specific concerns that the State raises are whether the Appellate Division incorrectly held that “the…