![]() ![]() In 1971, after advising us that we must not lose sight of the Fourth Amendments fundamental guarantee, Justice Stewart made this comment on what was then settled law: ![]() The Florida Supreme Court concluded that the seizure, which took place absent exigent circumstances or probable cause to believe that narcotics were present, was invalid. Instead, after arresting White at work on an unrelated matter and obtaining his car keys, the officers seized Whites automobile without a warrant from his employers parking lot and performed an inventory search. Most important to the resolution of this case, the police did not seek to obtain a warrant before seizing Whites car that fallover two months after the last event that justified the seizure. For reasons unexplained, the police neither arrested White at that point nor seized his automobile as an instrumentality of his alleged narcotics offenses. Justice Stevens, with whom Justice Ginsburg joins, dissenting.ĭuring the summer of 1993, Florida police obtained evidence that Tyvessel White was engaged in the sale and delivery of narcotics, and that he was using his car to facilitate the enterprise. TYVORUS WHITE ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF FLORIDA ![]()
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