Marlin Rucker v. City of Atlanta

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that search conducted five minutes after arrest was contemporaneous to the arrest and that officer’s completion of vehicle impound paperwork during interval was not intervening act
• relying on Belton to uphold a search conducted after officers arrested driver on an outstanding warrant and secured him in the back seat of the patrol car
• upholding search of car five minutes after defendant taken away because it was part of a “continuous series of events closely connected in time to the arrest”
• “There is no fixed outer limit for the number of minutes that may pass between an arrest and a valid, warrantless search that is a contemporaneous incident of the arrest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).