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02/10/2012 "See News Release 008 for any Concurrences and/or Dissents."

SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA No. 11-KK-2425 STATE OF LOUISIANA v. KEVIN GREEN On Writ of Certiorari to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal

PER CURIAM: Granted. The rulings of the courts below are reversed, the defendant's motion to suppress evidence and statements is hereby denied, and the case is remanded to the trial court for further proceedings consistent with the views expressed herein. Without regard to more restrictive state or local rules regarding when the police may or may not make a full custodial arrest of a person, "[w]hen officers have probable cause to believe that a person has committed a crime in their presence, the Fourth Amendment permits them to make an arrest, and to search the suspect in order to safeguard evidence and ensure their own safety." Virginia v. Moore, 553 U.S. 164, ____, 128 S.Ct. 1598, 1608, 170 L.Ed.2d 559 (2008). When the police officer observed defendant walking in the middle of the right hand lane of a major thoroughfare in New Orleans in the late afternoon, forcing traffic to move into the left lane, he had probable cause to believe defendant was in violation of not only traffic regulations

imposed by the New Orleans Municipal Code, see MSC

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