United States v. William Eugene Mayfield

How courts have described this case

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

• rejecting challenges to an inventory search even though \the inventory list started at the scene was not completed as it should have been\
• “[F]ailure of police to complete inventory of arrestee’s belongings as policy provided . . . did not render inventory search unreasonable.”
• the inventory is justified by, among other things, “governmental interests in . . . protecting the police against claims or disputes over lost or stolen property”
• “Compliance with procedures merely tends to ensure the intrusion is limited to carrying out the government’s caretaking function. This does not mean that inventory searches are always unreasonable when standard procedures are not followed, however.”
• “The intrusion is justified by governmental interests in protecting the owner’s property while it remains in police custody, in protecting the police against claims or disputes over lost or stolen property, and in protecting the police from -9- potential danger.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).