This petition challenges failure to suppress a plastic bag containing 20 balloons of heroin found under the back seat of a police car used to transport petitioner to jail. Petitioner argues that the seizure was unlawful because it was the fruit of an unlawful arrest made under an unlawful ordinance. We conclude that the obstruction ordinance must be read to require "maliciousness," and that when the requirement...
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