Supreme Court· 9/23/1981

Robbins v. California

Citations

453 U.S. 420
101 S. Ct. 2841
69 L. Ed. 2d 744
1981 U.S. LEXIS 132

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implying that police could also use statements of a suspect in deciding whether the contents of containers “ ‘could be inferred from their outward appearance.’ ”
referring to the rule of the Sanders footnote as “little more than another variation of the plain view exception”
exemplifying the dissimilar decisions throughout the country due to the refusal of later court opinions to follow its rationale
exemplifying the dissimilar decisions throughout the country due to the refusal of later court opinions to follow its rationale
listing cases decided by Federal Courts of Appeals since Chadwick had been announced
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