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STATE v. COFFEY

Nos. 8310SC258, 8320SC331.

310 S.E.2d 123 (1984)

STATE of North Carolina v. Samuel COFFEY.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

January 3, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Edmisten by Asst. Atty. Gen. Roy A. Giles, Jr., Raleigh, for the State.

Marshall H. Karro, Charlotte, for defendant-appellant.

PHILLIPS, Judge.

In contending that his motion to suppress should have been allowed, defendant maintains that his detention and that of the airplane by the Wake County officers at the Raleigh-Durham Airport before he was formally arrested constituted an unlawful seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The State responds that no seizure occurred until the defendant was formally arrested at 5:10 a.m. In our opinion neither party...

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