On January 12, 1996 two police officers assigned to a "quality of life" detail seized and then arrested Lyman Bothwell when they saw him holding an open Heineken bottle in a paper bag in front of a luncheonette. Incident to that seizure, they recovered 35 bags of crack cocaine. Mr. Bothwell has moved to suppress the evidence. He argues that a mere sighting of an open beer bottle in his hand...
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