Checkpoint for license and insurance is constitutional
Facts In 2016, Collins P.D. set up a checkpoint for drivers for safety purposes and were stopping every vehicle. Albert Stewart pulled up to the safety checkpoint in a gray Dodge pickup and after some delay handed Officer Bruce McDonald his driver’s license with his left hand. Stewart’s right hand was resting on his middle […]
Subject left his cell phone in the car when he fled
Facts In 2017, Gary Bounds, a patrol sergeant with Petal Police Department (PPD), observed a white vehicle making a left-hand turn onto Byrd Park Boulevard. The driver of the vehicle failed to use a turn signal. Sergeant Bounds proceeded to run the license plate number on the vehicle. The search revealed that the vehicle was […]
Nervous demeanor and officer’s knowledge of headliner equals constructive possession
Facts Sergeant Marion Overby testified that on July 18, 2017, he was patrolling on the frontage road of Highway 49 in Richland when he noticed an 18-wheeler parked on Lake Drive facing the highway with a vehicle parked in front of it. According to Overby, the truck was noticeably leaking fluid, so he went to […]
Both Mirandized and non Mirandized statements are admissible
Facts Marcus McCammon was a live in boyfriend to Ivy Fulton. Fulton’s seven year old granddaughter, LAV, lived with them. In 2016, LAV told Fulton that she asked McCammon if he wanted a massage one day and he said he wanted her to massage his groin. She did not tell anyone after that incident because […]
People don’t normally accept packages with bogus names
Facts In 2016, United States Postal Inspector Dwayne Martin noticed a suspicious express-mail package that had arrived at the mail distribution center in Jackson, Mississippi. The package had been sent from a California address by Terrance Armond to Danielle Armond at a Brookhaven address. Martin testified California is a known “source state” for narcotics coming […]
Confession was not suppressed when subject re-approached police and gave ambiguous statements about wanting to talk again (Saddler has clarified this)
Facts In 2013, Michael Jackson was a teacher at Columbus High School. He reached out to a student at the school using Kik and eventually offered him money for oral sex via cell phone text messaging. The student told his mother and they went to the police with the phone. Jackson was arrested and met […]