State v. Lowry’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
June 1984
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“If the rule were otherwise, an officer who desired to inculpate an arrested person in another crime, could seize everything in such person's immediate possession and control upon the prospect that on further investigation some of it might prove to have been stolen or to be contraband. It would open the door to complete temporary confiscation of all an arrested person's property which was in his immediate possession and control at the time of his arrest for the purpose of minute examination of it in an effort to connect him with another crime. Such a practice would be as much an exploratory seizure as one made upon an arrest for which no probable cause existed. Intolerable invasions of a person's property rights would be invited by an ex post facto authorization of a seizure made on groundless suspicion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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