Piedmont Financial Co. v. Commissioner

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• holding an arrestee loses any privacy interest in personal items already searched and stored pursuant to a valid inventory search
• holding prisoner lacks privacy interest in personal items lawfully searched and stored by prison
• holding prisoner lacks privacy interest in personal items lawfully searched and stored by prison
• “[T]he trial court must carefully consider whether expert testimony on the reliability of eyewitness identification would assist the jury in assessing the reliability of eyewitness testimony.”
• even where the relevance and helpfulness of expert witness testimony is debatable, there is no error if the decision to exclude is based on tenable grounds
• officers who arrested defendant for rape could use his shoes to compare the prints to those left at the scene of an unrelated rape

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).