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State v. Montague

Citations

  • 438 P.2d 571
  • 73 Wash. 2d 381
  • 1968 Wash. LEXIS 644

How courts have described this case

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  • rejecting the use of impoundment “as a device and pretext for making a general exploratory search of the car without a search warrant”
  • rejecting the use of impoundment “as a device and pretext for making a general exploratory search of the car without a search warrant”
  • “this court” would not “have any hesitancy in suppressing evidence of crime found during the taking of the inventory, if we found that . . . impoundment of the vehicle was resorted to as a device and pretext for making a general exploratory search of the car without a search warrant”

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Judges: Ward

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