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· 11/12/1968

United States v. Leah Joyce Teller

Citations

  • 397 F.2d 494

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that a purse placed on a bed was “merely another household item subject to the lawful execution of the search warrant” once the owner set it down and left the room
  • reasoning the purse is not an extension of the person when the individual, who is not under arrest, puts the purse down and voluntarily walks away from it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Schnackenberg, Fair-Child, Cummings

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