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· 11/25/1985

State v. Ritte

Citations

  • 710 P.2d 1197
  • 68 Haw. 253
  • 1985 Haw. LEXIS 132

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that, even assuming existence of probable cause, warrant-less search is unreasonable in absence of some judicially recognized justification
  • holding, after discussing the purposes of the search incident to arrest exception, that a search was not within the exception as the \arrestees had already been taken from the area\
  • “To establish exigent circumstances . . . government must show it had reason to believe that because of the vehicle’s mobility or exposure, there was a foreseeable risk that it might be moved or that the evidence which it contained might be lost before a warrant could be obtained.”
  • probable cause and exigent circumstances

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Judges: Lum, Nakamura, Padgett, Hayashi, Wakatsuki

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