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· 10/31/1995

United States v. Ricky J. Mitchell and Peter L. Johnson

Citations

  • 64 F.3d 1105

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that arrestee’s being handcuffed did not destroy officer’s justification for search of briefcase incident to arrest
  • search was contemporaneous with arrest when the officer conducted it “[i]mmediately after securing” the arrestee
  • upholding search of item after defendant was handcuffed
  • arrestee handcuffed before search of his briefcase

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cummings, Kanne, Rovner

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