Protective sweep while serving arrest warrant reveals incriminating evidence
Facts Richard Gookin was the owner of Dick’s Barber and Style located at the Appleridge Shopping Center in Jackson, Mississippi. Mr. Gookin testified that a young man entered his barber shop with a firearm. It was later asserted by police officers that this young man was Stanley “Joshua” McNeil. Gookin explained that at the time […]
Refusal to stop for police spoke volumes to the court as to constructive possession of drugs
Facts In 1998, Officer Lisa Dawe, a policeman with the New Albany Police Department, while on routine patrol, noticed a van with excessively loud music emanating from it. Dawe activated the blue lights in the patrol car and followed the van in an attempt to stop the driver and to ask that the volume be […]
Subject did not own home but he was found to live there for constructive possession purposes
Facts In 1999, a search warrant was issued to the Scott County Sheriff’s Office enabling them to search a mobile home in the Kalem Trailer Park in Kalem, Mississippi for guns allegedly possessed by Jerry Lewis Evans, a prior convicted felon. The officers searched the mobile home and recovered five guns. The mobile home was […]
Exigent circumstances allowed officer to take videotape of home
Facts In 1997, Edward Baker‘s children awoke in the middle of the night to the sounds of Baker violently assaulting their mother, Cinester Baker. According to the eldest child, LaTonya (12 years old), Cinester told her to run from Baker, but Baker got to the door before LaTonya could get out of the apartment. Cinester […]
Biting an officer constitutes an assault charge
Facts Christopher Cleveland was riding as a passenger in a car driven by Kendrick Green when the car was stopped at a routine roadblock. Officer P. L. Gage, one of the officers conducting the roadblock, recognized Cleveland and was aware that a warrant for his arrest had been issued. According to Gage, when he informed Cleveland […]
Subject was in custody for purposes of miranda when interviewed at hospital
Facts Joyce H. Canups died after being injured at the intersection of U.S. Highway 61 and Casino Center Drive in Tunica County, Mississippi, when the car she was driving was struck from behind by a red pickup truck allegedly being driven by Gary Hopkins. About forty minutes after the wreck, Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol Sergeant […]