Balch v. Simkins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a search that occurred when the suspect was handcuffed in a police car, after being arrested 100-150 feet away from his vehicle, was not a valid search incident to arrest
• holding that a defendant, who was not an authorized driver of a rental car, did not have standing to challenge the search of the car, but did have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the luggage he owned and stored in the trunk
• holding defendant had standing to challenge the search of his personal luggage in car trunk because the bags were closed and they contained personal belongings
• finding unauthorized a vehicle search conducted while the arrestee was handcuffed in the back of a patrol car
• finding unauthorized a vehicle search conducted while the arrestee was handcuffed in the back of a patrol car
• finding that, though the officers suspected the defendants had robbed a bank and arrested them with $2000 in cash stained with red dye, there was no evidence supporting a fair probability that their parked car contained contraband or further evidence of a crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).