People v. Gittens’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 1986
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“[T]he wrongful possession does not vitiate standing that the thief otherwise has. Accordingly, he is still entitled to challenged unlawful interference with his person and thus challenge a search of the car as the fruit of an illegal arrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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