170 W. Va. 354 - State v. Hanshaw’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 1986
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 165 W. Va. 837 - State v. Moore · 165 W. Va. 266 - State v. Stone · 168 W. Va. 666 - State v. Vance
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) the police must observe the evidence in plain sight without benefit of a search [without invading one's reasonable expectation of privacy], (2) the police must have a legal right to be where they are when they make the plain sight observation and, (3) the police must have probable cause to believe that the evidence seen constitutes contraband or fruits, instrumentalities or evidence of crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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