Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals · 2008
State v. Triston Lee Harris
The trained dog’s alert supplied probable cause to search the car on this record. It did not by itself supply probable cause to search Harris’s body. The cocaine was suppressed because the officer conducted a second, evidence-seeking “pat-down” without a weapons concern or particularized probable cause to arrest Harris.
280 S.W.3d 832
Find the opinion for State v. Triston Lee HarrisTennessee Supreme Court · 2011
State v. Christopher Lee Davis
Reasonable suspicion for a vehicle stop can come from the totality. Here: a car pulling toward the spot where a stolen car had just been found, occupants matching a general BOLO description, startled looks, and an abrupt turn-away and drive-back. A stop based only on race and gender matching a description would not be enough.
354 S.W.3d 718
Find the opinion for State v. Christopher Lee DavisTennessee Supreme Court · 2001
State v. Walton
A Miranda violation gets the unwarned statements suppressed. In Tennessee, it does not automatically get the physical evidence those statements led to suppressed. The defense can seek suppression of that evidence only if the statements were actually coerced or you ignored an invoked right to silence or counsel. Coercion puts the evidence at risk too.
41 S.W.3d 75
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