# State v. Stevens

> Wisconsin Supreme Court · February 2, 1965 · 26 Wis. 2d 451

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9672266

## Case

- **Full name:** State, Respondent, v. Stevens, Appellant
- **Court:** Wisconsin Supreme Court
- **Decided:** February 2, 1965
- **Citations:** 26 Wis. 2d 451; 132 N.W.2d 502; 1965 Wisc. LEXIS 1002
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Wilkie
- **Judges:** Hallows, Gordon
- **Cited by:** 83 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- No negative treatment found by the automated citator. That is not the same as a confirmation that the case is good law; read the citing cases.
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9672266

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- explaining that because the purse of a defendant arrested for disorderly conduct was properly in custody of the police, police were permitted to seize what was in plain sight sticking out of her purse

## Opinion text

*465 Wilkie, J.
(concurring). I would not resort to the “custody search” concept to justify the search in this case. As to this concept I share the misgivings of Mr. Justice Gordon. The defendant was arrested for disorderly conduct and taken into custody. The inventory that was then made of the contents of her purse, plus the later inspection that led to the discovery of the material, were investigations that were reasonably related to the crime for which she was originally arrested. In my judgment this search was reasonable.

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