Supreme Court· 6/20/1983

Illinois v. Lafayette

Citations

462 U.S. 640
103 S. Ct. 2605
77 L. Ed. 2d 65
1983 U.S. LEXIS 71

How courts have described this case

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

holding that arrestee’s person may be searched at the police station and the discovered items inventoried without warrant or probable cause
holding that ”[t]he reasonableness of any particular government activity does not necessarily or invariably turn on the existence of alternative ‘less intrusive’ means”
holding that the police may search any container or article in an arrestee's possession \as part of the routine procedure incident to incarcerating an arrested person\
holding that the police may search any container or article in an arrestee's possession “as part of the routine procedure incident to incarcerating an arrested person”
holding that the inventory search of personal effects of an arrestee at a police station was also permissible under the Fourth Amendment
holding that opening and inventorying a shoulder bag was reasonable despite the possible alternative of securing the bag as a whole

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Judges: Burger, White, Blackmun, Powell, Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Marshall, Brennan

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Cites

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