COM. v. CROWDER

No. 93-SC-288-DG.

884 S.W.2d 649 (1994)

COMMONWEALTH of Kentucky, Appellant, v. Arthur CROWDER, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Kentucky.

September 29, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chris Gorman, Atty. Gen., Joseph R. Johnson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Criminal Appellate Div., Frankfort, for appellant.

Frank W. Heft, Jr., Chief Appellate Defender of the Jefferson District Public Defender (Daniel T. Goyette, Jefferson Dist. Public Defender, of counsel), Louisville, for appellee.


JOHN M. ROSENBERG, Special Justice.

The issue in this case is whether the seizure of a "bindle"1 of drugs incident to a Terry2 patdown search violated the prohibition on "unreasonable searches and seizures" in the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States and § 10 of the Kentucky Constitution.

The facts are these. On May 4, 1991, twelve days prior to the incident involved...

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