STATE v. CARTER


235 N.J. Super. 232 (1989)

561 A.2d 1196

STATE OF NEW JERSEY, PLAINTIFF-APPELLANT, v. TYRONE CARTER, DENNIS LE-MAR THOMPSON, BARRY EUGENE WILKINS, DARREN KENNETH WHITING, DEFENDANTS-RESPONDENTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided August 4, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan W. Sciacca, Special Deputy Attorney General, Acting Assistant Prosecutor, argued the cause for appellant (John G. Holl, Assistant Attorney General In Charge, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor, attorney; Susan W. Sciacca, of counsel and on the letter brief).

Susan Herman, Assistant Deputy Public Defender, argued the cause for respondents Tyrone Carter, Dennis Le-Mar Thompson and Barry Eugene Wilkins (Alfred A. Slocum, Public Defender of New Jersey, attorney; Susan Herman, of counsel and on the letter brief).

Jerome M. Levine, of the Maryland Bar, admitted pro hac vice in the Law Division, attorney for respondent Darren Kenneth Whiting, relied on the brief and argument of Susan Herman, Assistant Deputy Public Defender.

Before Judges O'BRIEN and STERN.


The opinion of the court was delivered by O'BRIEN, J.A.D.

By leave granted the State appeals from an order suppressing six ounces of cocaine and two electronic beepers seized from an automobile occupied by defendants which was stopped for a motor vehicle violation. We reverse.

At approximately 8:00 a.m. on April 3, 1988, Trooper James Steiger (trooper) was on routine patrol on the New Jersey Turnpike traveling southbound in a marked vehicle. He observed a...

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