The nation’s top court has long held that for police to properly seize something in plain sight, its criminal nature must be “immediately apparent.”But that doesn’t mean police have to know for sure an item is contraband or evidence of a crime when they see it, a state appeals panel has ruled.The 3rd District Appellate Court in Ottawa last week ruled bags of cocaine found in a man’s bed during an unrelated search of his home were properly confiscated, despite an officer saying he thought the …