United States v. Warren L. Pindell

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the “immediately apparent” requirement has sparked debate among courts, especially in cases in which law enforcement officers have to “conduct additional examinations” to determine the significance of an object
• noting that, under the plain view doctrine, the incriminating nature of the item must be “immediately apparent”
• upholding the seizure of notebooks not listed in the search warrant pursuant to the plain view doctrine
• describing the admission of similar acts to the charged crimes to illustrate the defendant’s modus operandi as a “textbook case for the application of Rule 404(b)”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).