United States v. Goodrich

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

WOODLOCK, District Judge.

Robert Goodrich moves to suppress physical evidence seized as a result of searches he argues were in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights. He contends that the warrantless “inventory search” of the car he had been driving, conducted by the Swampscott Police Department after arresting him, was an investigative effort prohibited by the Fourth Amendment. He contends further that the subsequent search — to which he formally consented— of a bag found in the trunk of the car during the inventory search, is invalid as the fruit of the earlier search.

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