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Supreme Court· 2/25/2014

Fernandez v. California

Citations

  • 134 S. Ct. 1126
  • 188 L. Ed. 2d 25
  • 2014 U.S. LEXIS 1636
  • 82 U.S.L.W. 4102
  • 571 U.S. 292
  • 24 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 553
  • 2014 WL 700100

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an occupant who is absent as a result of a lawful arrest \stands in the same shoes as an occupant who is absent for any other reason\
  • concluding that a girlfriend who occupied an apartment with Fernandez may validly give consent to search their apartment when the defendant was not present to object to the same
  • holding that an occupant who is absent from the entrance of a home \due to a lawful detention or arrest stands in the same shoes as an occupant who is absent for any other reason\
  • noting that a possible improper motive in removing a suspect does not invalidate the search if the removal was objectively justified
  • holding that an objector must be present and contemporaneously objecting
  • stating that an officer’s motive does not invalidate objectively reasonable behavior under the Fourth Amendment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Alito, Scalia, Thomas

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126 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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Other cases named Fernandez v. California

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