United States v. Rafaela Monclavo-Cruz

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the search of the purse of an arrestee “more than an hour after her arrest at the station house” was not valid incident to arrest
• discussing distinction between wallet in arrestee’s pocket and purse held in arrestee’s hand or on their lap
• search invalidated when suspect’s purse was seized and kept exclusively within police custody, but was not searched until some time after her arrest
• warrantless search of defendant's purse more than an hour after arrest improper

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).