STATE v. ROBERTS

No. 8624SC361.

348 S.E.2d 151 (1986)

STATE of North Carolina v. Phillip S. ROBERTS.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

September 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atty. Gen. Lacy H. Thornburg by Associate Atty. Gen. J. Charles Waldrup, Chapel Hill, for the State.

C. Gary Triggs, Morganton, for defendant-appellant.


WELLS, Judge.

Defendant contends that various items and tools should not have been admitted into evidence because the officer had no probable cause to stop the vehicle he was operating and there were no exigent circumstances which justified a warrantless search. However, the State's evidence showed that defendant, as operator of an oncoming vehicle, failed to dim his lights in violation of N.C.Gen.Stat. § 20-181 as he drove toward a deputy sheriff. The deputy...

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