South Dakota v. Opperman, No. 75-76 (U.S. Supreme Court) (428 U.S. 364; 96 S.Ct. 3092) (July 6, 1976) (Justice Burger)
In a case where the Court amplified on its "community care exception" to the warrant requirement, it also delved into inventory searches and defined three permissible purposes of such searches.
In this case the Supreme Court articulated three justifications for an inventory search: (1) protection of the owner's property while ...
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