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· 9/1/2009

United States v. Zahursky

Citations

  • 580 F.3d 515
  • 80 Fed. R. Serv. 791
  • 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 19635
  • 2009 WL 2750260

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that “[a] warrantless search is per se unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment subject to a few well-established exceptions”
  • finding probable cause in support of automobile exception to war-rantless search where it was reasonable for officers to believe defendant would leave evidence of his crime in his car
  • Under “the automobile exception first recognized in Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132 (1925
  • officers had probable cause to search vehicle that matched description described in prior online chats and that was driven by man who showed up to a designated location at a designated time
  • automobile exception applied because vehicle “was inherently, even if not immediately, mobile”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cudahy, Manion, Tinder

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