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· 1/10/2024

United States v. Adams, Jr

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding that the search of the vehicle \invaded no Fourth Amendment protection which Ragsdale could claim\
  • holding that the searching officer’s individual knowledge is not the “alpha and omega” of the Fourth Amendment inquiry
  • upholding vehicle search by officer lacking probable cause where partner officer on scene had probable cause and search \would have almost instantaneously gone forward\ under that officer's direction
  • exclusionary rule does not apply when search \would imminently and lawfully have been made and [the evidence would have been] discovered at this very time and place and by this team of officers\ if acting officer had waited

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Judges: Judge Amit P. Mehta

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