United States v. Cruz Corral

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a plain-view seizure is proper when there exists a “practical, nontechnical probability that incriminating evidence is involved” (quotation omitted)
• explaining that officer could seize package because there was “probable cause to associate [it] with criminal activity”
• noting that when a container’s “‘distinctive configuration . . . proclaims its contents,’ the container supports no reasonable expectation of privacy and the contents can be said to be in plain view” (citations omitted)
• “In evaluating the correctness of the district court’s rulings, the appellate court may consider the entire record developed from the trial even though such evidence may not have been presented during the suppression hearing.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).