Exigent circumstances and probable cause allow search of car after arrest in this case
Facts In 2008, Shakeylia Anderson was picked up at her grandmother’s home by a man driving a white Ford Taurus. Her cousin saw the man and the car and her uncle had seen the name Bo on Anderson’s cell phone earlier that evening. Her body was found the next evening in a secluded wooded area. […]
Protective sweep of home proper after arrest
Facts A man, dressed in a navy hooded jacket and a white painter’s mask, approached Laura Rigdon at the Bank of Jones County and demanded money. $1,040.00 in various denominations were handed to the masked man who shoved the money in his pocket and then left. Rigdon told the police officers that she recognized the robber’s voice […]
Mississippi police don’t need to have perfect knowledge of other state’s laws on temporary tags
Facts In 2009, M.H.P. Trooper Harris Bryan pulled over a vehicle for an illegal temporary out of state license. The driver, Rodrigo Godinez, consented to a search and $20,800 was found in three separate bundles. A small amount of shake (loose marijuana) was also found in the vehicle. Two other adults were in the vehicle […]
Officers stopped vehicle based on reasonable suspicion that driver was wanted for murder
Facts In 2009, Jermaine Kelly was at his father’s house with his cousin Donta Davenport. Davenport later told police that two men kicked the back door open and demanded money. One had a handgun and one had an assault rifle. Davenport gave them money and fled the house. He then heard several gunshots before he […]
Sheriff answering arrestee is not interrogation in this case
Facts Bobby Batiste, Andreas Galanis and Daewoo Joo were students at Mississippi State University who shared a four bedroom apartment. Each tenant had a key that opened the front door of the apartment and that particular tenant’s bedroom door. One suite was empty. In 2008, Galanis and Batiste went to a bank where Galanis was shocked […]
Driver was in constructive possession of handgun found under his seat
Facts In 2010, Willie Weekly and Beverly Edwards were robbed at gunpoint in a parking lot in Jackson, Mississippi. Two men in a dark colored sedan got a credit card, $400, and a straight razor in the robbery. After giving a description of the robbers and the vehicle to the police, a BOLO was put […]