United States v. Arlease Prevo

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• reasoning that a prison visitor had a USCA11 Case: 20-14004 Document: 42-1 Date Filed: 06/18/2024 Page: 15 of 19 20-14004 Opinion of the Court 15 “negligible” privacy expectation in her car, considering how she drove past two signs warning her that it could be searched
• noting that the pistol on the front seat of a visitor’s car would be “accessible to prisoners passing by who were inclined to wrongdoing,” and concluding that “[a]t least where inmates have access to cars parked in prison facility parking lots, a search of the vehicle is reasonable”
• noting that the pistol on the front seat of a visitor’s car would be “accessible to prisoners passing by who were inclined to wrongdoing,” and concluding that “[a]t least where inmates have access to cars parked in prison facility parking lots, a search of the vehicle is reasonable”
• “At least where inmates have access 14 to cars parked in prison facility parking lots, a search of the vehicle is reasonable.”
• “Suffice it to say that the Fourth Amendment does not require the least intrusive alternative; it only requires a reasonable alternative.”
• “Because of the character of prisoners and the nature of im- prisonment, corrections facilities are volatile places, brimming with peril, places where security is not just an operational nicety but a matter of life or death importance.”

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