West v. People

How courts have described this case

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• finding search of vehicle driven by defendant who voluntarily exited auto immediately prior to her arrest was valid where defendant was standing at rear of auto at time of arrest and was arrested for traffic offenses related to her occupancy of vehicle
• The cases adopting the proposed limitation “raise grave public policy issues because they create serious concerns for the safety of officers and others.”
• “Police officers should not have to race from their vehicles to the arrestee’s vehicle to prevent the arrestee from getting out of the vehicle in order to conduct a valid search.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).