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· 3/21/1994

United States v. David John Decker

Citations

  • 19 F.3d 287
  • 1994 U.S. App. LEXIS 5068
  • 1994 WL 85621

How courts have described this case

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

  • “ ‘[Wjhere police have probable cause to believe a car is subject to forfeiture, or have validly seized a car for forfeiture, the polic[e] may search the car without a warrant.’ ”
  • “[W]e have no hesitancy in joining those circuits that hold that a pre-forfeiture inventory search of a vehicle does not require a warrant.”
  • “‘[W]here police have probable cause to believe a car is subject to forfeiture, or have validly seized a car for forfeiture, the polic[e] may search the car without a warrant.’”
  • inventory search conducted one week after seizure of the vehicle held proper

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Judges: Kennedy, Guy, Contie

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