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State v. Duncan

Citations

  • 146 Wash. 2d 166
  • 43 P.3d 513

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that searches incident to arrest and inventory searches are separate warrant requirement exceptions
  • stating that searches incident to arrest and inventory searches are separate warrant requirement exceptions
  • declining “to extend the Terry stop exception under the Fourth Amendment... to nontraffic civil infractions.”
  • “[S]ociety will tolerate a higher level of intrusion for a . . . higher crime than it would for a lesser crime.”
  • an officer need not have evidence supporting all elements of a crime to support an investigative detention
  • Terry stop requires a reasonable, articulable suspicion, based on specific, objective facts, that the person stopped has committed or is about to commit a crime or a civil traffic infraction

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Judges: Bridge

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