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Ohio Supreme Court· 4/28/1976

State v. Mathews

Citations

  • 46 Ohio St. 2d 72
  • 346 N.E.2d 151
  • 75 Ohio Op. 2d 150
  • 1976 Ohio LEXIS 597

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that officer's search of appellee's purse was lawful where the search was incident to the arrest of the appellee for a first degree misdemeanor
  • holding that the search of a purse clutched under an arrestee's arm was lawful as a search incident to the arrest
  • holding that if the defendant’s arrest was lawful, “then the search of the purse clutched under her arm, and under her immediate control, was not unreasonable.”
  • upholding search of a purse that an arrestee was carrying at the time of her arrest

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Judges: Brown, Celebrezze, Corrigan, Herbert, Neill, Stern

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