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· 7/11/2025

Quantarias McLean v. State of Alabama

How courts have described this case

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

  • 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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