United States v. Sheri Lee McCrady

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• holding that search of glove compartment “immediately” after arrest of individual who was not defendant was proper
• upholding search contemporaneous with arrest where arrestee was removed from car and placed in police cruiser prior to search
• search of locked glove compartment after defendant arrested and in patrol car upheld as search incident to arrest
• “Circumstantial evidence is ‘intrinsically as probative as direct evidence’ and may be the sole support for a conviction.” (quoting United States v. Two Eagle, 633 F.2d 93, 97 (8th Cir. 1980))
• warrantless search of passenger compartment of defendant’s car immediately after defendant was arrested and placed in police car was a valid search incident to defendant’s arrest
• \[A] fair range of discretion must be accorded the trial judge.\

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