United States v. Norman Dean Griffith

How courts have described this case

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• finding that the failure to handcuff defendant and allowing him to walk around the room vitiated any contrived fear that defendant would resist arrest or destroy evidence
• reasoning that officer safety was not a significant concern because instead of handcuffing the defendant, the officers “allowed him to walk about the room to get dressed instead of bringing his clothes to him”
• reasoning that officer safety was not a significant concern because instead of handcuffing the defendant, the officers \allowed him to walk about the room to get dressed instead of bringing his clothes to him\
• a pre-Chadwick case, the dicta from which regarding a warrant-less search of personal property has been superseded by Chadwick
• a pre-Chadwick case, the dicta from which regarding a warrantless search of personal property has been superseded by Chadwick
• search of luggage and bathroom, otherwise out of defendant's reach, after he was ordered to get dressed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).