Croney v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

4 state decisions

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1. ““In the instant case the automobile was parked with the trunk and driver’s door open near the cut fence with certain fruits of the burglary in the close proximity. Two persons inside the building fled on foot leaving the car behind. The vehicle was searched in the investigation of the burglary some time prior to the arrest of the defendants. Many of the courts of this country have held that there can be no complaint of illegal search when police officers search without a warrant and seize abandoned property. In People v. Harper, 26 Ill.2d 85 , 185 N.E.2d 865 , a similar case involving the search of an ‘abandoned getaway’ car, the Illinois Court stated: ‘We do not think that the reasonableness of this search is changed by defendant’s success in eluding the police. Upon finding the open car abandoned by the fleeing defendant, we think it reasonable that the police in the performance of their duties would look into the car to determine if there were anything there to identify the defendant, or any paraphernalia of the suspected narcotic traffic.’ “In Abel v. United States, 362 U.S. 217 , 80 S.Ct. 683 , 4 L.Ed.2d 668 , the United States Supreme Court upheld the search of a vacated hotel room. The California Court in applying Abel, supra, to the search of an abandoned car stated: ‘The analogy between the vacating of a rented hotel room and the abandoned automobile is persuasive. Here as in Abel, the property in question was bona vacantia as far as Smith was concerned. The police w”

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