Turner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “On August 21, 2003, a police officer in Tippecanoe County filed an affidavit for a search warrant, in which he described possible drug activity at 676 Harrison Circle in Dayton. The officer stated that the Dayton Town Marshall, (“Town Marshall”), had contacted him and advised him that the Town Marshall had received some complaints that there might be drug dealing at that residence. Based on that information, the officer and a detective with the Lafayette Police Department went to the residence and noticed that trash bags had been left near the curb for pickup. The officers retrieved four white trash bags, examined their contents, and discovered several marijuana cigarettes and stems that appeared to be from marijuana plants. One week later, the officers returned and found more trash bags at the curb. Once again, they examined the contents of the bags and found more stems from marijuana plants. Based on what they had discovered in the trash bags, the officers sought a search warrant for the residence. The trial court granted the warrant and officers from the Lafayette Police Department executed it. Once inside the residence, they discovered Turner. Turner acknowledged that he lived there and stated that “there was no more marijuana as it had all been used.” Appellant’s App. at 12. In the garage, the officers discovered cocaine.”

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

2. “Although this language tracks the Fourth Amendment [of the United States Constitution] verbatim, Indiana has explicitly rejected the expectation of privacy [test under the U.S. Constitution] as a test of the reasonableness of a search or seizure [under the Indiana Constitution]. The legality of a governmental search under the Indiana Constitution turns on an evaluation of the reasonableness of the police conduct under the totality of the circumstances. Moran v. State, 644 N.E.2d 536, 539 (Ind.1994).... We believe that the totality of the circumstances requires consideration of both the degree of intrusion into the subject’s ordinary activities and the basis upon which the officer selected the subject of the search or seizure.”

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

3. “a full hearing on the merits of Turner’s motion to suppress. On remand, the question presented is whether the affidavit in support of the search warrant demonstrated that before the officers searched Turner’s trash, they had an “articulable individualized suspicion” that Turner was or had engaged in illegal activity.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Turner v. State