State v. Michael Apelt

How courts have described this case

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• noting that plain view doctrine justified seizure if apparent evidentiary value of items established probable cause
• holding defendant has no expectation of privacy in non-legal letters and notes seized from jail cell
• affirming cruelty finding where victim was conscious when struck repeatedly with great force, stabbed in the back and chest, and her throat was slashed
• affirming cruelty finding where victim was conscious when struck repeatedly with great force, stabbed in the back and chest, and her throat was slashed
• “We agree ’ with the trial court that the identification in this case does not come within the ambit of Dessureault.”
• Fourth Anendment did not apply to letters seized from jail cell

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).