United States v. Davida Ross Staller and David Owen Saunders

How courts have described this case

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• upholding that a search, subsequent to police taking custody of the defendant's legally parked automobile, was a legitimate exercise of a caretaking function because of the risk to the car parked overnight in a mall parking lot
• impounding a lawfully parked vehicle was reasonable where “the officers were aware that a car parked overnight in a mall parking lot runs an appreciable risk of vandalism or theft”
• finding impoundment reasonable when the arrestee’s vehicle was legally parked in a private lot but no one was immediately available to take custody of it and leaving it parked overnight presented an “appreciable risk of vandalism or theft”
• recognizing and applying community caretaking exception
• recognizing and applying community caretaking exception
• recognizing and applying community caretaking exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).