search of car after occupant placed in custody and taken to courthouse not valid as incident to arrest
How later courts described this case
- search of car after occupant placed in custody and taken to courthouse not valid as incident to arrest
- "The cases . . . have . . . always insisted that the officers conducting the search have 'reasonable or probable cause' to believe that they will find the instrumentality of a crime or evidence pertaining to a crime before they begin their warrantless search"
- alleged criminal contemnors not entitled to jury trials under federal constitution where maximum penalty is within “petty offense” limit
- search of vehicle held not pursuant to arrest when vehicle was parked outside jail to which arrestee had been taken
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
Mr. Justice Harlan,
whom Mr. Justice Stewart joins,
concurring.
I concur in the judgment in this case, and in that part of the Court’s opinion dealing with the admission at petitioners’ trial of evidence produced by an unlawful search.