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State v. Wynne

Citations

  • 552 N.W.2d 218
  • 1996 Minn. LEXIS 506
  • 1996 WL 445135

How courts have described this case

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

  • recognizing that a purse carried by a person is protected from search under a premises warrant because it is an extension of the person
  • holding that the search of a purse seized from a woman who arrived at her mother’s house when police were executing a search warrant was not encompassed by the scope of the warrant
  • holding that officers could not search the purse of a woman who arrived home while officers were executing a search warrant for the premises; the purse was considered part of that woman's person and she wasn't named in the search warrant
  • “A search warrant authorizing the search of a particular building or premises does not give the officers the right to search all persons who may be found in it.” (quotation omitted)
  • indicating the defendant had a privacy interest in her purse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Tomljanovich, Anderson, Coyne, Stringer

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