TN: CODIS hit from prior arrest that had no conviction was still valid

Defendant was convicted of rape and murder based on a CODIS hit. His previous DNA draw was the result of his Tennessee arrest on a Mississippi fugitive warrant for a violent offense there. While the Mississippi charge had been dropped, Tennessee was never told. He was actually a felon, so no harm, no foul. State v. Scott, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 302 (May 10, 2012).*

The state concedes that the traffic stop that led to the smell of marijuana wasn’t legal after all. Riggle v. State, 967 N.E.2d 522 (Ind. App. 2012).*

The trial court apparently discounted the officer’s testimony that defendant was following a tractor-trailer too close when the officer stopped him for a lack of proof of the traffic offense. When defendant refused to consent to a search, the officer got out a drug dog. The court of criminal appeals affirmed because the evidence does not preponderate against the finding. State v. Baldwin, 2012 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 294 (May 10, 2012).*