United States v. Billy Ray Rowland

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• holding that the searching officers “failed to follow [the department’s] own procedures” by failing to make a record of all property within the inventoried vehicle
• holding that law enforcement’s failure to follow standard procedures and record all property, thereby ensuring the safe return of that property, showed that inventory search was improper
• holding that law enforcement's failure to follow standard procedures and record all property, thereby ensuring the safe return of that property, showed that inventory search was improper
• concluding that inventory search was unreasonable when officers failed to follow standardized procedures, searched for and recorded only incriminating evidence, and testified that the search was partly conducted to investigate possible crimes
• holding that discovering razor blades, rolling papers, and a syringe during Terry search of vehicle provided probable cause to search every part of the vehicle and its contents for further evidence of drugs
• holding that law enforcement’s failure to follow standard procedures and record all property, thereby ensuring the safe return of that property, illustrated that inventory search was pretextual and a ruse for a general rummaging in order to discover incriminating evidence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).