Thompson v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “When the owner or occupant of the premises permits the police to make a search without a warrant at a time when the occupant is not even suspected of complicity in the crime, the police are lulled into a sense of security, and [therefore] the occupant [can]not later object if the search led to the discovery of evidence which ultimately resulted in his being charged with complicity in the crime.”

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