Posts Tagged ‘plain view’
The Officer Must Be Lawfully Present for the Plain View Exception to a Warrant Requirement:
State v. Williams Appellate Docket No.: A-40 Decided November 2, 2020 Submitted by New Jersey Criminal Lawyer, Jeffrey Hark. In a recent New Jersey Supreme Court decision, the Court, without issuing a written opinion, affirmed a published Appellate Court decision overturning a denial of a motion to suppress when an officer saw weed in a boarding…
Read MorePlain view of a gun found in a car — What is “plain view”?
STATE OF NEW JERSEY v. LEE M. TRAVERS, Decided January 2, 2019 New Jersey Appellate Divsion Issue in this case to be addressed: Plain view of a gun found in a car—— What is “plain view”? FACTS: The facts here are key— because the police were called to the Toms River Ocean County scene and were told about the…
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