259 N.C. App. 366 - State v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis

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1 state decisions

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1. “There was evidence that the same suspect committed four robberies, the first while driving a dark blue Nissan Titan and the fourth while driving a Kia Optima. Later on the same day of the fourth robbery, officers arrested Lewis. When they located him they saw-of all the makes, models, and colors of all the vehicles in the world-a dark blue Nissan Titan, matching the description of the vehicle used in the first robbery. These facts were more than sufficient for the magistrate to conclude that, if officers returned to that location and found a dark blue Nissan Titan and Kia Optima there, there was probable cause to believe that those vehicles contained evidence connected to the robberies.”

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

2. “contained enough information, together with reasonable inferences drawn from that information, to establish a substantial basis to believe that the evidence sought probably would be found in the blue Nissan Titan and Kia Optima located at 7085 Laurinburg Road.”

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

3. “7085 Laurinburg Road could have been ... someone else's home with no connection to Lewis at all. That Lewis visited that location, without some indication that he may have stowed incriminating evidence there, is not enough to justify a search of the home.”

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