Castillo v. Stevens

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How courts have described this case

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• noting that officer had not effected the stop of the car, and that the defendant had parked her car herself
• analyzing when an officer first encountered the defendant’s vehicle “in connection with a crime” in order to determine whether automobile exception authorized war-rantless search of vehicle
• noting the “exigent cir- cumstances” exception “allows the police to conduct a search without a warrant if the search is both supported by probable cause and conducted under exigent circumstances”
• discussing that exception to the warrant requirement
• discussing that exception to the warrant requirement
• “Nothing occurred between [the time that the officer observed the van in motion] and the search that rendered the van immobile. *** In short, the van remained mobile and the exigency continued.”

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