STATE v. NELSON

No. KA 2010.

458 So.2d 527 (1984)

STATE of Louisiana v. Michael I. NELSON.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Writ Denied December 7, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Barbara B. Rutledge, Asst. Atty. Gen., Harry F. Connick, Dist. Atty., Susan Scott Hunt, Kathy L. Torregano, Asst. Dist. Attys., New Orleans, for the State.

H. Roberta Small, Student Practitioner, Calvin Johnson, Supervising Atty., Loyola Law School Clinic, New Orleans, for Michael I. Nelson.

Before REDMANN, C.J., and KLEES and WILLIAMS, JJ.


REDMANN, Chief Judge.

This appeal complains only of the trial court's failure to suppress as evidence a brown paper bag of marijuana cigarettes that police officers saw defendant place behind a cigarette machine in the public area of a barroom.

"If ... property is abandoned without any prior unlawful intrusion into a citizen's right of freedom from governmental interference, then such property may be lawfully seized. In such cases, there is no expectation...

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