807 So. 2d 218 - State v. Lipscomb’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “neither the state nor the defense had any particular need to delve in detail into the circumstances surrounding Officer Hughes’ seizure of the evidence. The officer’s trial testimony does not exclude the reasonable possibility that, if his attention were properly directed to those circumstances, the officer would reveal that he knew from his experience that the object he felt through respondent’s pants pocket was by its mass and contour a crack pipe and therefore narcotics paraphernalia subject to seizure without a warrant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 828 So. 2d 72 - State v. Foster

2. “[T]he constitutional validity of a seizure is ordinarily a matter for the court to determine in the context of a pre-trial motion to suppress if counsel elects to file one. La.C.Cr.P. art. 703. This requirement insures that “all disputes over police conduct unrelated to the guilt or innocence of the accused are eliminated from the jury trial’ and thereby avoids unwarranted delay and jury confusion.” State v. Christian, 26,589 (La.App. 2 Cir. 1/25/95), 649 So.2d 806, 808 , writ denied, 95-0791 (La.9/15/95), 660 So.2d 448 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 40 So. 3d 952 - State v. Montejo

3. “[b]ecause of their peculiar association with narcotics, crack pipes provide circumstantial evidence of an individual's guilty knowledge that he is in possession of cocaine even when the amount involved constitutes no more than the residue coating the pipe's walls.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 845 So. 2d 358 - State v. Sylvia