STATE v. ANDERSON

No. 13386.

316 N.W.2d 105 (1982)

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Andrew O. ANDERSON, Defendant and Appellee.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided February 17, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steve Miller, Deputy State's Atty., Sioux Falls, for plaintiff and appellant.

N. Dean Nasser, Jr., Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellee.


MORGAN, Justice.

This intermediate appeal from an order of the circuit court, Second Judicial Circuit, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, concerns the suppression of certain evidence; a film canister which contained controlled substances. The trial court suppressed this evidence under the Fourth Amendment as an "unlawful, unreasonable search." We reverse and remand.

On September 21, 1981, the appellee (Anderson) ran a red light in the City of Sioux Falls. The...

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