STATE v. FAURIA

No. 80-K-1438.

393 So.2d 688 (1981)

STATE of Louisiana v. Harvey FAURIA, Alvin Blouin and Bryan Blouin.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 26, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Leon Cannizzaro, Louise S. Korns, Asst. Dist. Attys., for plaintiff-relator.

John M. Lawrence, Orleans Indigent Defender Program, New Orleans, for defendants-respondents.


DENNIS, Justice.

We granted the state's application for a writ of certiorari to review the trial judge's suppression of evidence obtained through warrantless arrests and seizures.

On April 5, 1980, New Orleans Police Officer Richard Dugas, while in the vicinity of Downman and Morrison Roads, observed the three defendants near a spool of cable lying on the ground. The officer observed that the men had a cable cutter and were transferring cut pieces of cable...

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