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STATE v. PATTEN

436 A.2d 387 (1981)

STATE of Maine v. Michael A. PATTEN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided October 30, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne S. Moss, Asst. Atty. Gen. (orally), Augusta, John D. McElwee, Dist. Atty., Alan F. Harding, Asst. Dist. Atty., Houlton, for plaintiff.

Sage, Ayoob & Langley, Richard A. Langley (orally), Fort Fairfield, for defendant.

Before McKUSICK, C. J., and GODFREY, NICHOLS, ROBERTS, CARTER and WATHEN, JJ.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION.

The State appeals from a Superior Court order suppressing evidence seized by the State without a warrant. On an informant's tip, the Aroostook County Sheriff's Department seized a car driven by appellant Michael Patten, whom they believed to be transporting marijuana. The officers seized and searched a closed brown paper bag they discovered on the back seat; inside the bag, they discovered marijuana. At the suppression hearing, the presiding...

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