United States v. Melvin Wayne Hall

How courts have described this case

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

• “We declined to import into fourth amendment analysis the safeguards against self-incrimination enunciated in Miranda to strengthen the fifth amendment’s function in preserving the integrity of criminal trials.”
• “It is generally recognized that coercion is more easily found if the person consenting to the search has been placed under arrest[.]”
• “The investigating officer’s suspicion that he might find contraband or other evidence does not invalidate an inventory search where it is clear that the procedure used is a valid inventory procedure and is not merely a pretext for a search.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).