STATE v. OLHAUSEN

No. 20310.

587 N.W.2d 715 (1998)

1998 SD 120

STATE of South Dakota, Plaintiff and Appellee, v. Alan George OLHAUSEN, Jr., Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided December 9, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Barnett, Atty. Gen., Ann C. Meyer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, for plaintiff and appellee.

Cynthia A. Howard, Minnehaha County Public Defender, Sioux Falls, for defendant and appellant.


KONENKAMP, Justice.

[¶ 1.] We must decide if a tipster's warning to police of a "possible drug transaction" was sufficient to justify stopping an automobile to further investigate. Because the description the tip provided fit the car the deputy spotted and the dispatcher confirmed that a warrant was "associated with the vehicle," we conclude the stop and subsequent seizure of controlled substance was lawful. We affirm the circuit court's denial of the motion...

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