Trotter v. Stephens

How courts have described this case

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• sustaining search where defendant’s “automobile was an instrumentality of the crime, and unlike Preston * * * it was examined closely at the time of arrest and searched a few hours later”
• held search of car obtained incident to and contemporaneous with arrest of defendant “was merely part of one continuous act, even though interrupted by the arrest of [codefendant] in the interim”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).