Case ID: so2d_483/html/1003-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DENNIS, Justice,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Louisiana v. Jessie COMMODORE and Darryl Simms.
    No. 82-K-0073.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Feb. 28, 1986.
    For opinion see La., 418 So.2d 1330.
   DENNIS, Justice,

concurring.

I respectfully concur.

I disagree with the majority s conclusion that an arrest had been effected prior to the search of the defendants’ vehicle. An arrest is effected when there are “circumstances indicating an intent to effect an extended restraint on the liberty of the accused.”

However, the majority correctly held that the search did not violate the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution because the automobile exception to the warrant requirement applies. Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 158, 45 S.Ct. 280, 287, 69 L.Ed. 453 (1925); see also Chambers v. Maroney, 399 U.S. 42, 90 S.Ct. 1975, 26 L.Ed.2d 419 (1970).