Legal Opinion
Knight v. State
District Court of Appeal of Florida
Decided May 4, 1981No. VV-474PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
398 So.2d 908 (1981)
Robert Reid KNIGHT, Appellant,
v.
STATE of Florida, Appellee.
No. VV-474.
District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.
May 4, 1981.
Rehearing Denied June 9, 1981.
Robert W. Elrod, Jacksonville, for appellant.
Jim Smith, Atty. Gen., and Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, for appellee.
ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge.
On Knight's appeal we identify constitutional standards for a warrantless police search into suitcases, boxes, and other closed containers found during a more superficial inventory of property within a seized automobile. A general inventory of…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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- Carroll v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- South Dakota v. OppermanSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- United States v. ChadwickSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Wolf v. ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1949
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3Cited by4 opinions
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