Petition of the day
By Kate Howard
on Nov 16, 2016
The petition of the day is:
16-467
Issues: (1) Under the exception to the warrant requirement announced in Arizona v. Gant, permitting a vehicular search incident to a recent occupant’s arrest “when it is reasonable to believe evidence relevant to the crime of arrest might be found in the vehicle,” what quantum of particularized suspicion is required by the Fourth Amendment to justify the search; and (2) whether the unquantified experience of the arresting officer, alone, may supply the necessary particularized suspicion to justify the vehicular search.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Taylor v. Maryland
Recommended Citation:
Kate Howard,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Nov. 16, 2016, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2016/11/petition-of-the-day-1032/