· 6/29/1979
United States v. Steven Dale Newbourn, United States of America v. Larry Steven Jeffery
Citations
- 600 F.2d 452
- 1979 U.S. App. LEXIS 13534
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- applying the Court’s reasoning in Cady and holding that a warrantless search of a car’s trunk, which contained multiple stolen weapons, was reasonable
- “for the purposes of the Fourth Amendment there is a constitutional difference between houses and cars”
- “If, under Chambers, an opportunity to obtain a search warrant prior to the seizure of an automobile invalidates its search, the opportunity must be plain and ample”
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Judges: Haynsworth, Butzner, Phillips
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