Supreme Court· 6/21/1999

Maryland v. Dyson

Citations

527 U.S. 465
119 S. Ct. 2013
144 L. Ed. 2d 442
1999 U.S. LEXIS 4200

How courts have described this case

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

holding that probable cause supported police search of a vehicle when a \reliable confidential informant\ told officers that \a rented red Toyota\ with a particular license number would contain drugs
holding that probable cause supported police search of a vehicle when a “reliable confidential informant” told officers that “a rented red Toyota” with a particular license number would contain drugs
holding that there need not be an exigency for the automobile exception to apply
concluding that “[the finding] that the car contained contraband . . . alone satisfies the automobile exception to the Fourth 32 Amendment’s warrant requirement”
holding that established precedent has made clear that probable cause is threshold for satisfying automobile exception, and nothing more is required
recognizing that police may search a car without a warrant if there is probable cause to believe that it contains evidence of drug activity

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Judges: Breyer

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