· 7/11/2025
Quantarias McLean v. State of Alabama
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- concluding that an inventory conducted without notice that an occupant “may remove readily retrievable items” violates the Oregon Constitution
- holding that Article I, section 9, requires officers to notify occupants of a car to be impounded that they have the right to remove their personal possessions from the car
- holding that the failure to give a defendant notice that “he or she may retrieve personal items from the vehicle causes the scope of the inventory to exceed the purposes that justify the exception”
- holding that the failure to give a defendant notice that “he or she may retrieve personal items from the vehicle causes the scope of the inventory to exceed the purposes that justify the exception”
- protecting a vehicle occupant’s constitutionally protected privacy and possessory interests in readily retrievable personal items within a vehicle
- “[T]he contours and scope of the particular exception are circumscribed by the justification for that exception.”
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Judges: Shaw, J.
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