STATE v. BROWN

66195.

387 So.2d 567 (1980)

STATE of Louisiana v. Donald Reed BROWN.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied September 12, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard Knapp, Jr., Dist. Atty., Terry Johnson, Abbott J. Reeves, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-appellee.

Ulysses Gene Thibodeaux, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellant.


DIXON, Chief Justice.*

Donald Reed Brown was convicted of armed robbery (R.S. 14:64) and sentenced to fifty years at hard labor. In this appeal he complains that his warrantless arrest in his home was constitutionally deficient and tainted both the line-up which immediately followed the arrest and the subsequent in-court identification by the victim.

We hold that: "unless special circumstances are present, warrantless arrests in...

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