VEREZ v. COM.

Record Nos. 841111, 841114.

337 S.E.2d 749 (1985)

Luis Manuel VEREZ v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia. Milton VIDAL v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

November 27, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert S. Ganey (Ivy P. Blue, on briefs) Hanover, for appellant.

M. Katharine Spong, Asst. Atty. Gen. (William G. Broaddus, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.


RUSSELL, Justice.

In these cases the police entered a motel room without a search warrant or an arrest warrant, seized cocaine in plain view, and arrested the occupants. The defendants' consolidated appeals, based on the same set of facts, challenge the legality of these actions by the police.

Officers of the Virginia State Police and the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (D.E.A.) had concluded that Luis Manuel Verez was engaged in the transportation...

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