Wiede v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “a statutory provision [cannot] erase Fourth Amendment protections. Although we acknowledge that an individual possesses a reduced expectation of privacy in a motor vehicle, this diminished privacy interest has been recognized in well established search and seizure law. We will not further construe this reduced expectation of privacy to dispense with the Fourth Amendment’s probable cause requirement altogether when a vehicle is involved in a traffic accident. 12”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wiede v. State

2. “[f|or a plastic bag to gain the significance attributed to it by the trial judge, there must be evidence that the seizing officer knew at the time of the search that drugs were commonly packaged in plastic bags and suspicious circumstances that would lead an officer believe that the bag contained drugs. 47”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wiede v. State