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
- People v. RobinsonMichigan Court of Appeals · 1972
3Cited by18 opinions
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