State v. Petri

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• concluding that opening a sunglasses case was not justified, because the contents of the case posed no threat where the officer already had taken the case from the handcuffed defendant’s pocket
• once sunglasses case containing a needle was seized from defendant, “no officer safety concern would have justified opening the case”
• officer lacked objective probable cause to arrest defendant who was riding away from a known drug house and carrying a sunglasses case that he said contained a needle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).