Kathleen Meehan v. Officer Scott Thompson

How courts have described this case

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• articulating a reasonableness balancing test under the community-caretaking exception but framing the ultimate question as one concerning whether the facts at issue gave the officer acting “in his capacity as community caretaker” “probable cause to arrest” the individual
• articulating a reasonableness balancing test under the community caretaking exception but framing the ultimate question as one concerning whether the facts at issue gave the officer acting “in his capacity as community caretaker” “probable cause to arrest” the individual
• “[A] search incident to [an] arrest requires no additional justification.” (second alteration in original) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218, 235 (1973))
• the court may use its sound discretion whether of the two prongs to consider first, in the circumstances of the case
• “[A] search incident to [an] arrest requires no additional justification.” (second alteration in original) (quoting United States v. Robinson, 414 U.S. 218, 235, 94 S.Ct. 467, 38 L.Ed.2d 427 (1973))
• “We have recognized that it may be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment for a police officer, acting in his capacity as community caretaker, to seize an apparently intoxicated individual to ensure the safety of the public and/or the individual.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).