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· 6/10/1993

United States v. Alberto Rodriguez, Also Known as Bato

Citations

  • 995 F.2d 776
  • 1993 U.S. App. LEXIS 13579
  • 1993 WL 196355

How courts have described this case

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

  • upholding officer’s photocopying of the contents of arrestee’s notebook as a permissible search incident to arrest
  • upholding enhancement where district court made sufficient findings as to false testimony, materiality, and willfulness
  • affirming denial of motion to suppress address book found on arrestee's person; searching and photocopying address book was permissible search incident to arrest even though search was conducted away from scene of arrest
  • affirming denial of motion to suppress ad- dress book found on arrestee’s person; searching and photo- copying address book was permissible search incident to ar- rest even though search was conducted away from scene of arrest
  • where address book had been lawfully seized from defendant during search incident to arrest, “photocopying the contents of the address book was within the permissible scope of the search as an attempt to preserve evidence”
  • address book kept inside a wallet

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Easterbrook, Rovner, Eschbach

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