United States v. Craig Montgomery

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a Terry search was justified “[b]ased upon the nervousness of all of the occupants, the marijuana stem in plain view, []attempts to conceal the marijuana stem and an unknown object, respectively”
• noting that under Rawlings, “the search-incident-to-lawful-arrest rule . . . permits an officer to conduct a full search of an arrestee's person before he is placed under lawful custodial arrest . . . .”
• so long as officer had probable cause to arrest, no formal custodial arrest is necessary before a search incident to arrest can be made
• “When considering the denial of a suppression motion, we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).