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· 3/30/1945

Protest 84784-K/12558 of Jensen

Citations

  • 14 Cust. Ct. 229

How courts have described this case

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  • where the defendant was carrying a purse when she was arrested and the officer improperly refused her request to give the purse to a friend at the scene, drugs found in the purse during a subsequent inventory should have been suppressed
  • police “took advantage of the unlawful seizure by putting defendant in the position of having to choose between disclosing the contents of her purse and risking the prosecution that [the police] said could follow if defendant’s purse arrived at the jail with drugs inside it”

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Judges: Oliver

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