Ingle v. State

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

BUCHANAN, C.J.

We use this opportunity to expand upon the justification for the warrantless police search of Ingle’s basement. See this court’s opinion of June 26, 1978, reported at 377 N.E.2d 885.

It is still our conclusion that the officers were justified in walking through the house in search of other suspects. See People v. Block (1971), 6 Cal.3d 239, 491 P.2d 9; Guevara v. Superior Court (1970), 7 Cal.App.3d 245, 86 Cal.Rptr. 657; People v. Mann (1969), 61 Misc.2d 107, 305 N.Y.S.2d 226. As stated in People v. Mann, supra:

Arrest gives the police the right to search…