United States v. Jairo Cardona-Rivera and Gustavo Luna Sanchez

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• opining that such objects “taken together with the circumstances in which it is seized” obviate the need for a warrant
• “Once [the defendant] admitted that his package contained a contraband substance, no lawful interest of his could be invaded by the officers’ opening the packages, whether on the spot or later in their office”
• “[I]f the shape or other characteristics of the container, taken together with the circumstances in which it is seized . . . proclaim its contents unambiguously, there is no need to obtain a war- rant”
• plain-view seizures are rarely truly inadvertent
• plain-view seizures are rarely truly inadvertent
• under front seat of car

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).