STATE v. PEEBLES

No. 64781.

376 So.2d 149 (1979)

STATE of Louisiana v. Brian PEEBLES.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

October 8, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Barnard, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendant-respondent.

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., David J. Cortes, Asst. Dist. Atty., for plaintiff-relator.


DENNIS, Justice.

This review of a criminal trial court's suppression of evidence presents a single issue: Did probable cause to arrest and search the defendant arise when he approached and offered to sell drugs to an individual who was being arrested for a narcotics violation by plainclothes police officers? We conclude that it did and, accordingly, reverse the judgment of suppression. The defendant's arrest and search incident thereto were lawful because, under all...

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