United States v. Lonnie Eugene Hughes

How courts have described this case

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• upholding plain feel seizure of crack cocaine where detective testified that his “first impression was that the object was contraband”
• finding sufficient evidence of intent to distribute controlled substances in 25.5 grams of crack, a pager, $2,390 in cash, a police radio scanner, a loaded gun, and expert testimony that such evidence was indicative of an intent to distribute
• witness’s 32 years of experience in the field with duties including activities about which witness was testifying were sufficient to qualify witness as expert
• stop justified where officers found car described by informant parked in front of the address given by informant and defendant appeared -5- nervous when officers followed him in the car
• seizure of \small lumps\ believed to be crack cocaine upheld
• “small lumps” of crack cocaine

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).