United States v. James W. McCoy

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• finding no -17- 17 due process violation in case of three and one-half year delay between conduct at issue and return of federal indictment
• rejecting as conjectural the argument that preindictment delay reduced the defendant's opportunity to serve concurrent terms on state and federal charges
• “Assuming, without deciding, the search warrant was invalid, we nonetheless conclude that . . . the search was permissible under the ‘automobile exception’ to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement.”
• “Assuming, without deciding, the search warrant was invalid, we nonetheless conclude that . . . the search was permissible under the ‘automobile exception’ to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement.”
• “probable cause alone justifies a warrantless search of a motor vehicle seized without a warrant while parked in a public place”
• “inherent mobility of motor vehicles . . . and the reduced expectation of privacy associated with them . . . justify application of the vehicular exception ‘[ejven in cases where an automobile [is] not immediately mobile’ ” [citations omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).