United States v. Theodore Eugene Kelly

How courts have described this case

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• doubting that single evasive answer concerning car’s ownership was sufficient to establish probable cause to believe car was stolen where police knew who owned car and that car had not been reported stolen
• search invalidated where car was parked in motel parking lot and searched after defendant’s arrest; alternative holding
• “The mere fact that the officer who conducted the search . . did not immediately recognize the incriminating [nature] of [the seized items] is immaterial because the evidence must be considered as it would have appeared to a reasonable police officer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).