United States v. Michael A. Robinson

How courts have described this case

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

• stating that “a defendant’s arrest ... does not qualify as an affirmative, volitional act of withdrawal [from a conspiracy]”
• explaining that this court has allowed searches of automobiles incident to an arrest even if the “arrestee was out of the car, handcuffed, and placed in the back seat of a police cruiser”
• suspect abandoned his vehicle and cell phone by fleeing from the scene of a traffic stop, extinguishing his expectation of privacy
• “If property has been ‘abandoned’ . . . the Fourth Amendment is not violated through the search or seizure of this property.”
• “If property has been ‘abandoned’ ... the Fourth Amendment is not violated through the search or seizure of this property.”
• “issues adverted to in a perfunctory manner, unaccompanied by some effort at developed argumentation are deemed waived”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).