Here the Court held that the police may conduct a warrantless search of a parked car if they have made a lawful arrest of its driver nearby, even when the officer does not make contact with the person arrested until he has left his vehicle.

In Chimel v. California, 395 ...

This case arose from the boarding and search of the defendant’s boat at the entrance to San Diego Bay by a joint task force targeting smuggling activities from Mexico into Southern California. The boat was originally spotted near the U.S.-Mexico border; and it was then tracked as it traveled north. ...

Defendant Daniel Martin pled guilty to fraud and tax evasion arising out of his participation in a scheme to defraud several food distributors and a supermarket chain of more than $1.8 million. District Judge Keenan of the D.Mass. sentenced Martin to three years of probation, with six months to be ...

The petitioner in this case, David Nelson, was three days away from execution by the state of Alabama when he filed this civil action for deprivation of rights pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Alabama planned to carry out Nelson’s execution by lethal injection, but Nelson’s veins were “severely compromised” ...

Robert Jansen, the appellant/inmate in this case, filed a petition for habeas corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2255, alleging that his trial counsel was ineffective for failing to argue at sentencing that the amount of drugs in his possession intended for personal use should not have been included in ...