United States v. Melvin A. Wider, A/K/A Melvin A. Wilder

How courts have described this case

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• finding probable cause where defendant was on foot, drugs packaged for sale were found on his person and his car was parked nearby
• upholding warrant-less search of suspect’s unoccupied vehicle parked 35 feet from place where suspect was arrested
• finding no reasonable expectation of privacy where defendant placed a brown paper bag on steps and walked away
• finding probable cause to arrest where officer observed suspect abandon a bag containing white rocks
• warrantless vehicle search was upheld even though police did not observe defendant in vehicle or standing next to it
• discovery of drugs on individual can contribute to probability “that the[ir] [nearby] vehicle contain[s] additional evidence of drug dealing activity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).