876 So. 2d 39 - State v. Strange’s Empirical Analysis

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17 state decisions

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1. “[T]he [appellate] court correctly found that "once the stop was made, everything that occurred after that was appropriate." Nothing precluded Trooper Dupuis from engaging the defendants in conversation, State v. Lopez, 00-0562 (La.10/30/00), 772 So.2d 90 , and the officer did not need any degree of reasonable suspicion, as opposed to intuition or "hunch," to ask for, and receive, Strange's consent to search the car. Consent is a well-recognized exception to the warrant requirement, State v. Owen, 453 So.2d 1202, 1206 (La.1984); State v. Packard, 389 So.2d 56, 58 (La.1980), and rendered lawful the subsequent discovery and seizure of the marijuana hidden behind the Thunderbird's rear bumper. Seizure of the small amount of cocaine and methamphetamine from Strange's wallet was incident to the lawful arrests and was therefore also lawful. Chimel v. California, 395 U.S. 752 , 89 S.Ct. 2034 , 23 L.Ed.2d 685 (1969); State v. Wilson, 467 So.2d 503, 517 (La.1985).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. 940 So. 2d 819 - State v. Strange