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· 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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