United States v. Billy Charles Prescott

How courts have described this case

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• inventories used as pretexts for investigatory searches in the absence of probable cause are unlawful
• inventories used as pretexts for investigatory searches in the absence of probable cause are unlawful
• despite lack of evidence as to standard police procedures, seizure of a gun was permissible under the plain view doctrine
• “If an inventory search is otherwise reasonable, its validity is not vitiated by a police officer’s suspicion that contraband or other evidence may be found.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).