Court Opinion

ID: 9794739
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 03:10:51.187021+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:19:44.846529
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SCHAUER, J., Dissenting.
In my view, under the circumstances of this case as forthrightly delineated in the majority opinion, the search of defendant’s automobile without a warrant was lawful, and the evidence so obtained was properly admitted.
Furthermore, I believe it to be predominantly in the public interest—including the interest of an innocent owner—that an automobile lawfully taken into possession by a police officer (as was the one here involved; see Veh. Code, §§ 22651, subd. (h), and 22850) be searched and its contents inventoried as soon as reasonably possible. Such search and inventory appear to me to be not only the right but the duty of the officer taking custody.
I would affirm the judgment.
McComb, J., concurred.
Respondent’s petition for a rehearing was denied August 25, 1964. Schauer, J., and McComb, J., were of the opinion that the petition should be granted.