STATE EX REL. SNEED v. LONG


871 S.W.2d 148 (1994)

STATE of Tennessee, ex rel., Robert SNEED, Appellant-Applicant, v. Charles LONG, Sheriff of Hamblin County, Appellee-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Knoxville.

February 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen. and Reporter Jerry L. Smith, Deputy Atty. Gen., Nashville, for appellee-respondent.

Robert Sneed, pro se, with the Assistance of Greg Eichelman, Office of the Public Defender, Morristown, for appellant-applicant.


OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

Robert Sneed appeals from the Court of Criminal Appeals' affirmance of the trial court's denial of his petition for a writ of habeas corpus in this extradition proceeding. This Court granted Sneed's application for permission to appeal to address a single issue: whether the authorities in the asylum state may, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, search an inmate's personal property that...

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