United States v. Judah Robert Lyons

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)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).