Difference between revisions of "Search and Seizure"
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===Containers, Clothing, Handbags=== | ===Containers, Clothing, Handbags=== | ||
| − | *United States v. Chadwick | + | *'''United States v. Chadwick''' - A search warrant is required before federal agents may open a locked foot locker which they have lawfully seized at the time of the arrest of its owners, where there is probable cause to believe the footlocker contains contraband. |
| − | *California v. Acevedo | + | *'''California v. Acevedo''' - Police may search an automobile and containers within it where they have probable cause to believe contraband or evidence is contained. |
| − | *United States v. Edwards | + | *'''United States v. Edwards''' - once a defendant is lawfully arrested and is in custody, the effects in his possession at the place of detention ay be subject to search at the time and place of his arrest may lawfully be searched and seized without a warrant even though a substantial period of time has elapsed between the arrest and subsequent administrative processing on the one hand and the taking of property for use as evidence on the other. |
| − | *Illinois v. Lafayette | + | *'''Illinois v. Lafayette''' - It is reasonable and consistent with the Fourth Amendment for police to search the personal effects of a person under lawful arrest as part of the routine administrative procedure at a police station house incident to booking and jailing the suspect. |
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===Consent=== | ===Consent=== | ||
*'''Stoner v. California''' - Only the defendant himself may grant permission for an officer to search his hotel room. | *'''Stoner v. California''' - Only the defendant himself may grant permission for an officer to search his hotel room. | ||
