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VanPelt v. State

Citations

  • 760 N.E.2d 218
  • 2001 Ind. App. LEXIS 2226
  • 2001 WL 1671448

How courts have described this case

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  • holding officers had probable cause to arrest the defendant where officers smelled marijuana while talking to him and he failed two field sobriety tests
  • holding “that the search incident to arrest exception, which typically applies when a search and arrest are contemporaneous, also applies where, as here, law enforcement conducts a lawful search but merely delays an otherwise valid arrest until after consultation with a prosecutor”
  • “The critical issue is not when the arrest occurs but whether there was probable cause to arrest at the time of the search.”

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Judges: Najam, Sharpnack, Riley

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