Court Opinion

ID: 9858841
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 16:57:41.348992+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:57:01.709723
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TATE, J.,
concurs in the result. He does not agree with the statement in footnote 2 that the court cannot consider the evidence on the hearing on the motion to suppress and on the merits, properly identified by reference in the bills, and that the statements in the trial court’s per curiam must be accepted for this reason. However, the evidence so attached shows that the trial court’s construction of the evidence is correct, and so therefore is our conclusion. Likewise, if the search of the suitcase is illegal, it could not be harmless error. Harrington v. California, 395 U.S. 250, 89 S.Ct. 1726, 23 L.Ed.2d 284 (1969). Nevertheless, although the matter might be close, such search may be justified as incident to a lawful arrest based on the probable cause known to the West Monroe officers, who had radioed the Ruston police to stop the cab and its occupants. Cf. Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary, 401 U.S. 560, 91 S.Ct. 1031, 1037, 28 L. Ed.2d 306 (1971) (syllabus 8).
He therefore concurs.