Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1/10/2006

State v. Dunlap

Citations

888 A.2d 1278
185 N.J. 543
2006 N.J. LEXIS 3

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noting that “[p]olice safety and the preservation of evidence remain the preeminent determinants of exigency”
noting that \the presence of ten officers\ at the scene of an automobile search particularly justified the \conclusion that exigency was absent\
finding no exigent circumstances to be present when defendant was vastly outnumbered by responding police, and his vehicle, thought to contain drugs, was parked on a residential street
“[T]he search incident to arrest exception cannot be invoked where a defendant has no capacity to reach the interior of the vehicle to destroy evidence or to endanger the police.”
\[T]he search incident to arrest exception cannot be invoked where a defendant has no capacity to reach the interior of the vehicle to destroy evidence or to endanger the police.\
\Police safety and the preservation of evidence remain the preeminent determinations of exigency.\

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Judges: Per Curiam

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