Shirley Curd v. City Court Of Judsonia, Arkansas

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that personal items like bags, purses, and wallets are “immediately associated” with the person
• noting that search must be contemporaneous with arrest and within area of arrestee’s immediate control
• holding that “[e]ven if seizing [the plaintiff’s] arm and turning her body was unnecessary to effect the arrest, we cannot conclude that this limited amount of force was objectively unreasonable,” where there was no allegation or evidence of injury or physical pain
• search of purse valid when conducted at police station fifteen minutes after defendant was arrested at home
• \It matters not whether [the defendant] was capable of reaching the purse at the time of the search\
• search of arrestee’s purse after officers took possession of purse valid

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).