United States v. Richard Albert Jenkins

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a person no longer has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the serial numbers of already-seized property
• finding search prior to arrest to be lawful “as long as probable cause to arrest existed at the time of the search”
• finding no fair cross- section violation in the District of Connecticut with an absolute disparity of 2.15% for Black people
• approving of local police allowing federal agents to examine, for a bank robbery investigation, the serial numbers of dollar bills that the local police collected from the appellant at the time of his arrest on a gun charge
• relying on Edwards to conclude there was no Fourth Amendment violation where a federal agent took \second look\ and seized without a warrant money that had been taken from the defendant following his arrest on unrelated state charges and maintained in the jail safe
• “[t]he Act was not intended to require precise proportional representation of minority groups on grand or petit juror panels”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).