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E69| Search incident to arrest. Distance, delay & the common law way!
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In this episode, Mike shares his response to the criticism levelled against a police officer who, after arresting the driver of a vehicle for PPT, had the vehicle towed to the police station and searched it without a warrant. Did the distance and delay of the search — from the place and time of arrest — render a search of the vehicle outside the permissible scope of the common law doctrine of search incident to arrest? Can the police move a vehicle to properly search it? Or must a search incident to arrest follow immediately on…
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