Beaner v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding the victim of a carjacking was in “immediate actual possession” of his car when he left his car to use a payphone, left the car running with the doors open, and was three feet away from the car
• reversal under plain error standard requires showing of plain error that affects substantial rights, but also requires either a showing of miscarriage of justice or a showing that error affected the fairness, integrity or public reputation of proceedings
• “[T]he test for judging the existence of probable cause is whether a reasonably prudent police officer, considering the total circumstances confronting him and drawing from his experience, would be warranted in the belief that an offense has been or is being committed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).