People v. Savedra

How courts have described this case

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

• holding an arrestee to be a “recent occupant,” despite a five-minute lapse in time between the arrestee exiting the vehicle and the subsequent search
• noting that officers should not be required to \race from their vehicles\ to prevent an arrestee from exiting his or her vehicle and that a \speedy\ suspect could prevent a vehicle search simply by exiting the vehicle and then surrendering to the officer
• noting the police must make a lawful custodial arrest before a search incident to arrest is constitutional
• noting that officers should not be required to “race from their vehicles” to prevent an arrestee from exiting his or her vehicle and that a “speedy” suspect could prevent a vehicle search simply by exiting the vehicle and then surrendering to the officer
• noting that the arrest must be lawful
• \ Belton can include situations where the occupant of a vehicle anticipates police contact and exits the vehicle immediately before that contact occurs.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).