State of New Jersey, Plaintiff-Appellant and Cross-Respondent v. Stanley Tucker, Jr., Defendant-Respondent and…

Summary

The Supreme Court of New Jersey affirmed the Appellate Division, holding that the police seized the defendant under the state constitution, that the seizure was not justified because there was no articulable suspicion, and that the contraband was not abandoned but the product of an illegal seizure, so the evidence was suppressed.