State v. Clew

How courts have described this case

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

• “[T]he officer noticed a knife approximately ten inches long in a sheath on defendant’s belt. [He] asked defendant whether he possessed any other weapons.” (emphasis added)
• officer permissibly opened backpack next to driver’s seat of car during search incident to arrest of driver for possession of marijuana; backpack “was the type of container in which marijuana could be found”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).