United States v. Ivan Garcia-Lopez

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 search under a mattress during a protective sweep was not “overbroad”
• concluding that a protective sweep that involved searching under a mattress in a trailer was permissible because “it was logical under the specific facts of this case to suspect that a person might be hiding in a hollowed box spring”
• concluding that a protective sweep that involved searching under a mattress in a trailer was permissible because “it was logical under the specific facts of this case to suspect that a person might be hiding in a hollowed box spring”
• “[E]vidence or contraband seen in plain view during a lawful sweep can be seized and used in evidence at trial”.
• plaintiff’s statement about his normal habit was not enough of using turn signal not enough to negate officer’s testimony to the contrary
• “When the evidence includes a videotape of the relevant events, the Court should not adopt the nonmoving party’s version of the events when that version is blatantly contradicted by the videotape”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).