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STATE v. HUGHES

No. 59A00.

539 S.E.2d 625 (2000)

353 N.C. 200

STATE of North Carolina v. John Elvis HUGHES.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 21, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Easley, Attorney General, by William B. Crumpler, Assistant Attorney General, for the State.

Edward G. Bailey and Lee E. Britt, Jacksonville, for defendant-appellant.

Clifford Clendenin O'Hale & Jones, LLP, by Walter L. Jones, Greensboro; and Seth H. Jaffee, Raleigh, Counsel, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina Legal Foundation, amicus curiae.

FREEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal as of right based on a dissent from the Court of Appeals below, reversing the trial court's decision in a controlled substance case to grant defendant's motion to suppress evidence. We conclude that the Court of Appeals erred, and we thus reverse that opinion.

On the morning of 13 March 1998, Detective Imhoff of the Jacksonville Police Department was sitting in the office of Captain Matthews of the Onslow County Sheriff...

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