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STATE v. BRIDGES

963 S.W.2d 487 (1997)

STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Ray Anthony BRIDGES, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson.

December 31, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General and Reporter, Michael E. Moore, Solicitor General, Gordon W. Smith, Associate Solicitor General, Nashville, G. Robert "Gus" Radford, District Attorney General, Huntingdon, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Larry E. Fitzgerald, Memphis, for Defendant-Appellant.

OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The primary issue in this appeal is whether the warrantless seizure of cocaine from the defendant's person during a detention and frisk was constitutionally permissible under the "plain feel" or "plain touch" doctrine expounded in Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366, 113 S.Ct. 2130, 124 L.Ed.2d 334 (1993). In this case, the trial court denied the defendant's motion to suppress, and thereafter...

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