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State v. Smith

Citations

  • 559 P.2d 970
  • 88 Wash. 2d 127
  • 1977 Wash. LEXIS 744

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  • search may be incident to lawful arrest, regardless of which comes first, if search and arrest are “reasonably closely related in time and place”
  • probable cause to arrest and exigent circumstances justified search as incident to arrest despite the lack of a formal arrest
  • defendant in hospital had no reasonable expectation of privacy in his clothing because it was in a semipublic area and hospital had control of the clothes
  • probable cause to arrest and exigent circumstances justified search as incident to arrest despite the lack of a formal arrest
  • no reasonable expectation in clothes over which hospital personnel had control

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Wright, Hunter, Hamilton, Brachtenbach, Dolliver, Rosellini, Utter, Horowitz

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