Legal Opinion
Fair v. State
Indiana Supreme Court
Decided December 30, 1993No. 49S04-9312-CR-1439PublishedCited by 106 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON PETITION TO TRANSFER
SHEPARD, Chief Justice.
We grant transfer to examine the rules applicable to inventory searches of automobiles under the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. - Concluding that the search in this case did not comply with the Fourth Amendment, we reverse.
I. Facts and Procedural History
On October 18, 1991, Officer Jeffrey Wager of the Indianapolis Police Department was dispatched to the Vantage Point Apartment Complex in response to a complaint that gun shots had been fired. The police dispatcher advised Wager of a potential suspect described as a black male wearing a…
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