STATE v. YEARGAN


958 S.W.2d 626 (1997)

STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Wayne Lee YEARGAN, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, at Nashville.

November 24, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Knox Walkup, Attorney General & Reporter, Daryl J. Brand, Senior Counsel, Clinton J. Morgan, Counsel for the State, Kimbra R. Spann, Assistant Attorney General, Nashville, C. Michael Layne, District Attorney General, Kenneth Shelton, Assistant District Attorney General, Manchester, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Donald E. Dawson, Bruce, Weathers, Corley, Dughman and Lyle, Nashville, for Defendant-Appellant.


OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

The certified question of law1 presented in this appeal is whether the state or federal constitutional right to be free from unreasonable seizures was violated when the motor vehicle which the defendant was operating was stopped by a city police officer, who six months earlier, had arrested the defendant for driving under the influence of an intoxicant and had been present in court when the defendant...

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