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State v. Atwood

Citations

  • 180 A.3d 1119
  • 232 N.J. 433

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the State had the burden to justify a warrantless investigatory stop of a vehicle, notwithstanding that police searched the vehicle pursuant to a warrant they obtained based on the stop
  • holding drugs found pursuant to a search warrant must be suppressed when the police officer did not have reasonable suspicion to justify the underlying motor-vehicle stop
  • holding drugs found pursuant to a search warrant must be suppressed when the officer did not have reasonable suspicion to justify the underlying motor vehicle stop
  • holding \[a] later- obtained search warrant does not retroactively validate preceding warrantless conduct that is challenged through a suppression motion focused on the legitimacy of the seizure that gave rise to a later search\

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Judges: Timpone

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