Tracy Cottrell v. State of Arkansas

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that “ready mobility” of vehicle parked in a parking lot supported a finding of exigency because officers “were not certain if the car would remain in the parking lot if they left to obtain a warrant”
• stating that a person’s hotel room is the “equivalent” of his home
• “[A] person does not forfeit fourth amendment protections merely because he is residing in a motel room.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).