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CT: Long permitted car frisk; Gant inapplicable

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

The search of defendant’s car for a weapon was permissible under Michigan v. Long, so Gant did not apply. State v. Butler, 296 Conn. 62, 2010 Conn. LEXIS 141 (May 4, 2010). Typo in address (174 v. 184) could be overlooked where it was the only house that otherwise matched the description: mobile home perpendicular to the road, dog pen in backyard, only house in proximity. Price v. State, 2010 Ga. App. LEXIS 377, 2010 Fulton County D. Rep. 1395 (April 7, 2010). Defendant’s wife how had equal access to his computer, although she had her own, had the apparent authority to consent to search and seizure of defendant’s computer by the police after she saw child pornography on it. She feared violence by the defendant so she called the police...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on May 06, 2010 (boomark / email).