Search Incident to Arrest in the United States
Search Incident to Arrest
United States Constitution
According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled SEARCH INCIDENT TO ARRESTweeks v. united states (1914) recognized, as an exception to the fourth amendment’s requirement of a search warrant, the authority of police to search a person incident to his arrest in order to discover concealed weapons or evidence. This principle has remained essentially
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