United States First Circuit

It was not clearly erroneous for the district court to conclude that police inventory procedures contained an unwritten addendum that officers should remove all contents from a container when inventorying that container, and that the search of a jar and its contents was permissible as an inventory search.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/06/2002
• Published 02/06/2002

Judges

• TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge., Before BOUDIN, Chief Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen C. Smith, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Margaret D. McGaughey, Appellate Chief, with whom Paula D. Silsby, United States Attorney, were on brief for appellee.