STATE v. VERNON

No. 7926SC696.

263 S.E.2d 340 (1980)

STATE of North Carolina v. Robert Murray VERNON.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

March 4, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Associate Atty. Sarah C. Young, Raleigh, for the State.

Levine, Goodman & Pawlowski by Paul L. Pawlowski, Charlotte, for defendant-appellant.


ARNOLD, Judge.

The trial court upheld the search of the Corvette defendant had driven to the motel as a valid inventory search. The recent decision of our Supreme Court in State v. Phifer, 297 N.C. 216, 254 S.E.2d 586 (1979), however, reveals that the search cannot be upheld on that ground. Here, as in Phifer, the officer who searched the defendant's car completely failed to follow the standard procedures for towing...

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