Schaum v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that knowledge of the suspect and even merely suspecting him of involvement in prior burglaries, combined with his interaction with a known “fence,” supported probable cause to arrest for a burglary
• holding that police with probable cause to believe a seized car contained evidence of a burglary could search it “either at the place where it was stopped or shortly thereafter at the police station”
• “Probable cause, as the very name implies, deals with probabilities. These are not technical; they are the factual and practical considerations in everyday life on which reasonable and prudent men, not legal technicians, act.”
• search of suitcase in car
• search of suitcase in car

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).