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State v. Hight

Citations

  • 146 N.H. 746
  • 781 A.2d 11
  • 2001 N.H. LEXIS 155

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that the State had “failed to purge the taint of the defendant’s unlawful detention and that the evidence procured through the defendant’s consent should have been suppressed”
  • considering the races of a Caucasian police officer and an African-American suspect in deciding whether the State purged the taint of an unlawful detention followed by a consent to search
  • applying Brown factors to consent to search following illegal motor vehicle stop
  • concluding the official misconduct was flagrant
  • applying comparable factors to destruction of evidence case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Brock, Broderick, Dalianis, Duggan, Nadeau

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