831 So. 2d 292 - State v. Mays’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “On August 2, 1999, at approximately 2:30 a.m., Deputy Scott Zemlik of the Gretna Police Department was working the night shift as a member of the Narcotics Bureau. Officer Zemlik was dressed in uniform and driving a marked patrol unit when he received a dispatch to a shoplifting incident at the EZ Serve located at 1625 Lafayette Street in Gretna. Officer Zemlik drove through the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly Grocery and onto 21st Street in a westward direction. Officer Zemlik spotted a subject who met the description given at the time of the dispatch. The subject was walking west in the 500 block of 21st Street. According to Officer Zemlik, from his past experience, the officer knew this area to be an area of violent crime and narcotics. At the time he was first sighted, the subject was about 100 feet away from the officer. Officer Zemlik first alerted the dispatcher of his activities and then exited his patrol unit, identified himself as a law enforcement officer, and ordered the subject to identify himself. The subject followed the officer's instructions and proceeded to walk towards the patrol car. As he did this, the subject opened his left hand and a plastic baggie, containing an off-white rock substance, was dropped to the ground. Officer Zemlik positioned the defendant against the patrol car and then did a "pat-down" of the outer clothing of the subject. The officer next picked up the plastic baggie and field-tested the substance inside. The substance tested positiv”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 917 So. 2d 1185 - State v. Mays

2. “Since more than ten years elapsed between the time of the conviction of the first offense and the commission of the second offense, used for enhancement purposes, it was incumbent upon the State to prove the defendant's actual discharge date for the first offense. There is nothing in the record to show the date of the defendant's discharge from state supervision on the first offense. Therefore, the State did not meet its burden of proof in this case in showing defendant was a third-felony offender.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 917 So. 2d 1185 - State v. Mays