Legal Opinion

People v. Robinson

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided November 29, 1972No. 2 September Term 1972, Docket No. 53,824PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtBlack, J.

(for affirmance). I agree with the reasoning of both opinions below (37 Mich App 115, 119) and therefore vote to affirm. In particular I adopt as level-headed common sense the first two paragraphs of the concurring opinion Presiding Judge Levin prepared. They read:

"When a person is arrested and jailed it is a customary procedure to require him to remove and deposit his personal belongings with the jailer.
"Information obtained by a police officer through the *633exercise of his senses as he observes articles being removed by a prisoner from his pockets and transferred to a receptacle for…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. People v. RobinsonMichigan Court of Appeals · 1972

3Cited by18 opinions

  1. State v. LindNorth Dakota Supreme Court · 1982
  2. People v. BrooksMichigan Supreme Court · 1979
  3. People v. BurdoMichigan Court of Appeals · 1974
  4. People v. MerchantMichigan Court of Appeals · 1978
  5. People v. RivardMichigan Court of Appeals · 1975

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