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No differing inventory search standard for private tow company taking possession of vehicle at request of police

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

There is no reason for a different standard between inventories where the police take possession or a private towing company does at the request of the police. State v. Whealton, 2008 Conn. App. LEXIS 277 (June 3, 2008): Here, the court credited Redd's testimony that the officers conducted the inventory search pursuant to standard procedure when the vehicle was going to be impounded. The defendant has not provided this court with any legal basis for distinguishing between a situation in which the police take a vehicle into police custody or turn it over to a private towing company for impounding. In both cases, the protective reasons for an inventory search pertain. Worker's compensation investigation by USPS of an employee working in his yard hardly violated any Fourth Amendment right...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on June 05, 2008 (boomark / email).