STATE v. MOULTRIE

No. 2014 KA 1535.

182 So.3d 1017 (2015)

STATE of Louisiana v. Joseph Michael MOULTRIE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

October 23, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Waitz, Jr. , District Attorney, Marian M. Hamilton , Assistant District Attorney, Houma, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellee, State of Louisiana.

Margaret S. Sollars , Thibodaux, LA, for Defendant/Appellant, Joseph Michael Moultrie.

Before McDONALD, CRAIN, and HOLDRIDGE, JJ.


The legal issue that must be resolved in this criminal case is whether the defendant's constitutional rights were violated when a police officer, without a search warrant, opened the lid of a barbecue grill located next to a trailer that the defendant claimed as his residence and seized drug evidence found therein. Finding that the seized...

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