Summary
stating question presented as, "Does the Fourth Amendment require law enforcement officers to demonstrate a threat to their safety or a need to preserve evidence related to the crime of arrest in order to justify a warrantless vehicular search incident to arrest conducted after the vehicle's recent occupants have been arrested and secured?"
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No. 07–542.
2008-02-25
ARIZONA, petitioner, v. Rodney Joseph GANT.
Case below, 216 Ariz. 1, 162 P.3d 640.
Motion of National Association of Police Organizations, Inc., for leave to file a brief as amicus curiae granted. Petition for *1444 writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of Arizona granted limited to the following question: Does the Fourth Amendment require law enforcement officers to demonstrate a threat to their safety or a need to preserve evidence related to the crime of arrest in order to justify a warrantless vehicular search incident to arrest conducted after the vehicle's recent occupants have been arrested and secured?