Commonwealth v. Champney, R.

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• explaining that department “policies do . . . assist courts to determine whether an inventory search is legitimate, as opposed to pretextual”
• concluding an inventory search was valid despite the officer failing to list some of the property in the inventory list
• noting that an inventory search is valid if the search motive is administrative and holding that officers failure to create an inventory sheet did not render the search motive as pretextual
• “We have long held that affiants seeking a warrant may state conclusions based on training and experience without having to detail that experience.”
• affidavit stated that police found drugs and cash on defendant’s person, and that people who possess firearms use text messages for criminal activity
• “[The officer] checked a box on the relevant inventory form indicating that items of potential value were in the car before identifying and booking the items recovered from the car as ‘evidence/property.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).