Police can search handcuffed arrestee’s luggage, Illinois high court rules
In a recent ruling that inspired a strongly worded dissent, the Illinois Supreme Court held that police did not violate a suspect's Fourth Amendment rights by searching a small piece of luggage by his side after he was arrested and handcuffed on a civil warrant for failure to pay child support. Find out what search-and-seizure scholars say about the ruling in the April Illinois Bar Journal.
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