United States v. Jason Eric Swanson

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that, generally, dictum is anything “not necessary to the determination of the issue on appeal”
• finding that federal agents had probable cause to seize automobile without a warrant because vehicle had been used thirty days earlier to deliver automatic weapon to confidential informant
• finding that exigent circumstances justified warrantless seizure of vehicle where suspect was not arrested and “would have been free to drive the car away, and perhaps destroy or dispose of evidence, or even the car itself’
• collecting cases in which individuals were questioned at police stations and found not be in custody for purposes of Miranda
• noting that the purpose of the questioning is relevant
• “a statement by a law enforcement officer to a suspect that he is not under arrest is an important part of the analysis of whether the suspect was ‘in custody.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).