Commonwealth v. Sullo

How courts have described this case

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

• listing compliance with \a standard or routine procedure adopted and recognized by the police force\ as only one of three criteria that valid inventory search must satisfy
• “What the police may not do is hunt for information by sifting and reading materials taken from an arrestee which do not so declare themselves”
• police not required to blind themselves to information that declares its nature to anyone at its sight
• administrative searches \may not become a cover or pretext for an investigative search\
• “In making an inventory ... the police are to act more or less mechanically, according to a set routine, for to allow then a range of discretion in going about a warrantless search would be to invite conduct which by design or otherwise would subvert constitutional requirements”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).