Missouri Supreme Court to Consider Police-Search Cases

Missouri Lawyers Media › January 09, 2011

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The Missouri Supreme Court has agreed to hear an issue that has split the state's appellate courts: Can police officers take the U.S. Supreme Court at its word?

The state high court is considering two cases in which drugs were found during searches of vehicles during traffic stops.

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Missouri Supreme Court to Consider Police-Search Cases

For decades, a U.S. Supreme Court precedent had been interpreted to mean that an officer could search the vehicle of anyone arrested in the course of a traffic stop. But in 2009, ...

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