State v. Burgholzer

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• concluding that the officer's search of a cigarette package in a search incident to arrest for driving under the influence of a controlled substance was permissible, because a \cigarette package was a place where evidence of that crime could have been concealed\
• search of car incident to arrest was permissible when, after the defendant performed field sobriety tests, an officer concluded that he had probable cause to arrest the defendant for DUII
• search was reasonable in scope and intensity where container searched was “plainly within [the] defendant’s immediate possession shortly before the arrest” and was “a place where evidence of [the crime of arrest] could have been concealed”
• officer permissibly opened cigarette package found in car during search incident to arrest for driving under the influence of a controlled substance, because “cigarette package was a place where evidence of that crime could have been concealed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).