United States v. John A. Thornton

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• characterizing a search as properly incident to arrest when an officer with probable cause to arrest stated during the initial search that the defendant was not yet under arrest but then placed the defendant under arrest upon discovering narcotics

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).