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State v. Wickline

Citations

  • 440 N.W.2d 249
  • 232 Neb. 329
  • 1989 Neb. LEXIS 246

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding no Fourth Amendment protection for cigarette butt discarded at police station
  • DNA testing of abandoned cigarettes left at police station did not violate Fourth Amendment
  • DNA testing of abandoned cigarettes left at police station did not violate Fourth Amendment
  • police not required to obtain warrant to test cigarettes defendant left at police station because he “abandoned these items and sufficiently exposed them to the officer and the public to defeat his claim to fourth amendment protection”
  • police- not required to obtain warrant to test cigarettes defendant left at police station because he “abandoned these items and sufficiently exposed them to the officer and the public to defeat his. claim to [F]ourth [A]mendment protection”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Hastings, Boslaugh, White, Caporale, Shanahan, Grant, Fahrnbruch

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