United States v. Sammy L. Garrett

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the permissible scope of a search may expand as officers uncover evidence giving rise to probable cause to believe additional contraband is present elsewhere
• defendant seen giving co-defendant the same type of bag the co-defendant later dropped and from which drugs were recovered
• officers had probable cause to search vehicle for narcotics where, among other things, they had received a tip that “narcotics were being distributed” in a “high narcotic area” by someone driving a car that matched the defendant’s car
• officer observed what appeared to be a drug transaction

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).