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· 8/20/1953

Grumbacher v. United States

Citations

  • 31 Cust. Ct. 395
  • 1953 Cust. Ct. LEXIS 1269

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the officer “was at most negligent” in suspecting the defendant of criminal activity
  • holding that an independent arrest warrant served as an intervening event between an unlawful stop and search incident to arrest
  • holding that the connection between an officer’s conduct and a subsequent search was “interrupted by [the] intervening circumstance” of the issuance of a valid warrant
  • concluding that a valid warrant constituted “a sufficient intervening event to break the causal chain” of an unconstitutional traffic stop.
  • holding that an inde‐ pendent arrest warrant served as an intervening event be‐ tween an unlawful stop and search incident to arrest
  • holding that officer's discovery of valid, preexisting arrest warrant attenuated connection between unlawful investigatory stop and drug-related evidence seized from defendant during 3 search incident to arrest

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Judges: Mollison

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