Legal Opinion
People v. Belton
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 11, 1982PublishedCited by 286 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*51OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge Cooke.
The United States Supreme Court having disagreed with our perception of the requirements of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and reversed our earlier decision, this case comes once again to this court. Defendant urges that, although the search in question has been held valid under the Federal Constitution, we should hold that it violated section 12 of article I of the State Constitution, a contention not confronted when the case was previously before us. The identical wording of the two provisions does not proscribe our more strictly…
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