# Arrington v. United States

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · January 13, 1978 · 382 A.2d 14

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9631056

## Case

- **Full name:** Willie ARRINGTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** January 13, 1978
- **Citations:** 382 A.2d 14; 1978 D.C. App. LEXIS 406
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Gallagher
- **Judges:** Newman, Gallagher, Mack
- **Cited by:** 17 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge,
dissenting:
As we know in Fourth Amendment cases minor circumstances often alter results. It is agreed that the officer could have placed his hand under the car seat to search when he first entered the car to drive it to the precinct. It does not strike me as unreasonable that, instead, he placed his hand under the seat in the same car 14 blocks and, from all that appears, a few minutes later when he arrived in front of the precinct. As an earthy proposition, I view the search here as being reasonably contemporaneous.

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