KASS, J.
At about 9 P.M. on March 5, 1997, William R. Serpa, a State trooper, on routine patrol duty on Route 195, pulled over a white Chevrolet taxicab because it had faded over a marked line and into the breakdown lane. During the course of the stop, Trooper Serpa ordered a rear-seat passenger out of the taxi, searched around the rear seat, and found cocaine. A judge of the Superior Court ordered that the fruits of Trooper Serpa's search be suppressed because the...
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