STATE v. DOBARD

No. 2001-KK-2629.

824 So.2d 1127 (2002)

STATE of Louisiana v. Ernest J. DOBARD.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 21, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard P. Ieyoub, Attorney General, Harry F. Connick, District Attorney, Andre R. Belanger, for Appellant.

Derek J. Honore, for Respondent.


KIMBALL, Justice.

We granted certiorari to consider whether evidence abandoned by defendant during a "vice check" of a bar and its patrons was recovered by the police as a direct result of an unconstitutional seizure. For the reasons discussed herein, we conclude that, notwithstanding the fact that the officers harbored an uncommunicated subjective intent to search defendant, defendant was not illegally seized prior to his abandonment of crack cocaine. Therefore,...

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