D.C. Circuit· 4/26/1983

United States v. Judah Robert Lyons

Citations

706 F.2d 321
227 U.S. App. D.C. 284
1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 28544

How courts have described this case

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holding that defendant who unwittingly invited undercover agents into hotel room did not thereby relinquish expectation that closet would remain private
concluding that the search of a closet “several yards away from” a defendant, who sat handcuffed among six police officers, was not a permissible search incident to arrest
holding police discovery of loaded revolver in overcoat hanging in closet while defendant was “sitting, handcuffed . . . several yards away” and surrounded by six police officers was not valid search incident to arrest
questioning in dicta the reliance in Opperman on the rationale of protecting the police from false claims because the police would be involuntary bailees of the automobile who would have a slight duty of care
weapon found inside coat pocket in hotel room closet suppressed because consenting hotel clerk lacked authority to consent to search of room
“[A] court must ask: was the area in question, at the time it was 16 searched, conceivably accessible to the arrestee . . . .” (emphasis added)

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Judges: Edwards, Scalia, Van Dusen Third

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