Court Opinion

ID: 9564950
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:12:12.317455+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:16.928963
License: Public Domain

THOMAS, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the disposition of this case in accordance with the majority opinion. In my judgment, the police officers clearly had probable cause to arrest Roose when they saw him driving the vehicle which had been reported stolen. The reference to a felony traffic stop seems to me to simply describe an arrest, and I am not certain that the law of arrest is aided by injecting the felony traffic stop terminology.
In addition, I would justify the search of the appellant’s wallet and trousers as incidental to his arrest in accordance with United States v. Edwards, 416 U.S. 800, 94 S.Ct. 1234, 39 L.Ed.2d 771 (1974). That rationale for me clearly fits the facts of this case, and it does not seem at all necessary to justify this search under the inventory rationale.