State v. Betterley

When the defendant was jailed for violating conditions of probation (for failing to advise the probation officer of his purchase of a car), the police properly searched him incident to booking him into jail. The police took the defendant's personal belongings, inventoried them and placed them in a property box. This search and seizure of the defendant's property was for limited purposes: to verify his identity, to protect his property, to protect others against any contraband, weapons or means of escape he may have had, and to protect the police officers from groundless accusations that they…