Court Opinion

ID: 9725953
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 12:22:30.146625+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:21.746862
License: Public Domain

WIENER, J.
I concur in the result with the understanding that it is limited to situations involving a search incident to an arrest for a contraband-type offense (cf. People v. Superior Court (Simon) (1972) 7 Cal.3d 186, 201-202 [101 Cal.Rptr. 837, 496 P.2d 1205]) which may be disposed of by a mere citation but which, by its very nature, gives the arresting officer reason to believe that additional contraband may *966be in the defendant’s possession, the discovery of which would make citation disposition inappropriate. Under such circumstances, the inherent reasonableness of this limited intrusion, coupled with the practical problems involved in detaining the arrestee pending the obtaining of a search warrant, justifies the exception to the warrant requirement.