United States v. Gary D. Martin, United States of America v. Robert E. Reed

How courts have described this case

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

• “Police may take protective custody of a vehicle when they have arrested its occupants . . . .”
• “Police may take protective custody of a vehicle when they have arrested its occupants, even if it is lawfully parked and poses no public safety hazard.”
• lawful impoundment of car at parking lot where arrest occurred because no one was available to take custody of unlocked car with valuable equipment inside in plain view

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).