Taking clothes is not a 5th amendment issue but it could be a 4th amendment issue
Facts In 2000, Jane Doe, and Allen Scott, were found severely beaten and in critical condition on the side of the road near Durant, Mississippi. Earlier that day, a rest stop security officer had seen them and bought them bus tickets to return to their homes in Texas. Later that day, Durant police officer Howard […]
Inventory of suitcase was proper
Facts After working an eight-hour shift in 2003, Detective Denise McMullen of the Meridian Police Department attempted to serve a felony warrant on Billy Ray Bradley. She received an anonymous tip as to Bradley’s location but received a subsequent tip that Bradley was near the North Frontage Road in Meridian. McMullen spotted Bradley, carrying a […]
Visitor had more than mere presence at site to justify constructive possession of drugs
Facts Upon executing a search warrant in 2001, officers from the Warren County Sheriff’s Department found numerous precursor chemicals to crystal methamphetamine, along with the completed product, filters, scales, and plastic bags, under the stilt-structured mobile home of Richard Earl Kerns, Jr. Randy Lewis of the Warren County Sheriff’s Office testified that a working laboratory for […]
Search warrant based on C.I. not valid when there is no statement of reliability as to the C.I.
Facts In 2001, a confidential informant (C.I.) placed telephone calls to Agent Jimmie Nichols of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics and Deputy Investigator Mark Wilcher of the Leake County Sheriff’s Office. The C.I. reported that he had been at Adam Roebuck’s residence and had seen methamphetamine inside Roebuck’s house. The C.I. also reported that he […]
No evidence that subject was promised a lighter sentence by talking
Facts In 2000, Keith Crawford cut Flavis Sanders’s lawn. Sanders, a 74-year-old single woman, was a retired Humphreys County deputy tax assessor. When Crawford returned the next morning to complete his chores, he knocked on the front door of Sanders’s house. When Sanders failed to respond to his knocks on the door, Crawford looked down to Sanders’s […]
Inventory search of vehicle can occur before car is towed
Facts Captain Sterling Beckham and Deputy James McMahan of the Harrison County Sheriff’s Department went to James O’Connell’s residence to serve a warrant for his arrest. Upon their arrival, the deputies knocked on the door but received no response from within the house. As the deputies proceeded to depart the premises, they noticed O’Connell driving […]