Asking subject to remove shoes does not allow a search of lighter that fell out
Facts In 2010, Biloxi P.D. stopped a car for crossing a fog line on I-10. The driver could not produce a drivers license and a Terry frisk revealed drugs in his pants which he admitted. The passenger, David May, who had a suspended drivers license, was asked to exit the car so an inventory search […]
Reasonable Suspicion justified extending traffic stop
Facts In 2012, Lieutenant Nick McLendon with Richland P.D. stopped a Ford 500 for speeding. Darryl Bobo was the registered owner and was not in the car. Parrish Norfleet, driver, said he was traveling from Georgia to California to visit family. McLendon noticed several air fresheners, a small overnight bag, and a single key in […]
Single photographs were overly suggestive but identification was reliable
Facts In 2011, Clell McCurdy was in his dorm room on the campus of Jackson State University. With his door ajar, he noticed two men walk down the hall past his door, then turn and come into his room. McCurdy did not recognize either of the men. Once in the dorm room, one of the men began […]
conspiracy to possess drugs proven here
Facts In 2011, Dominick Riley, United States postal inspector, became suspicious of a package mailed from California to Canton, Mississippi. The package’s sender’s name did not match the sender’s address. Also, the package came from California, a “source state” for narcotics shipping in the United States. Riley contacted the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics (MBN), whose […]
Consent was properly obtained and includes curtilage
Facts In 2012, Warren County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a tip that Amy Whitehead was manufacturing methamphetamine at the address where she lived with her 80 year old grandmother, Ruby Mills. After police knocked on the front door, Whitehead exited the back door, carried a black box to the shed and gave the box to […]
Victim recording subject is not a 5th amendment issue – also discusses when right to counsel attaches
Facts In 2012, a group of twelve to fifteen men were playing dice at a birthday party in Benton County, Mississippi. As the game was winding down, Deldrick Carroll pulled out a gun and pointed it at Gary Patterson. Patterson dropped his money, about $2,260, and everyone fled. Carroll then shot the gun in the […]