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· 11/9/2009

United States v. Ruckes

Citations

  • 586 F.3d 713
  • 2009 WL 3719209

How courts have described this case

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

  • applying 16 “inevitable discovery” exception to search of a vehicle that would have been inventoried 17 after impoundment
  • relying on a state trooper’s “testimony at the suppression hearing” that “informed Judge Burgess” of standard police procedures
  • “[T]he deterrent rationale for the exclusionary rule is not applicable where the evidence would have ultimately been discovered during a police inventory . . .”
  • “Officers 24 are only permitted to search the passenger compartment of an arrestee’s automobile if the search is 25 required for officer safety or is necessary to prevent destruction of evidence of the crime for which the 26 recent occupant was arrested”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Richard C. Tallman and Milan D. Smith, Jr., Circuit Judges, and Thomas M. Reavley

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