Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Summer 2002
Publication Title
Indiana Law Journal
Publication Title (Abbreviation)
Indiana L.J.
Volume
77
Issue
3
First Page
419
Last Page
467
Abstract
This article discusses the Supreme Court's landmark 2001 decision Atwater v. City of Lago Vista, upholding the authority of police to execute warrantless arrests for menial offenses (there, failure to wear a seatbelt) so long as police have probable cause to support such arrests.
Rights
© 2002 Wayne A. Logan
Faculty Biography
http://law.fsu.edu/our-faculty/profiles/wlogan
Recommended Citation
Wayne A. Logan,
Street Legal: The Court Affords Police Constitutional Carte Blanche to Arrest, 77
Indiana L.J.
419
(2002),
Available at: https://ir.law.fsu.edu/articles/194
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Comments
First published in Indiana Law Journal.