Court Opinion

ID: 9737808
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:34:46.441339+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:01.395237
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STATON, Judge,
concurring.
I concur with the majority’s conclusion that the conviction for carrying a handgun without a license should be reversed. The search which revealed the handgun was not conducted substantially contemporaneous with the arrest so that it could be considered a search incident to the arrest. U. S. v. Garcia (7th Cir. 1979), 605 F.2d 349, cert. den., 446 U.S. 984, 100 S.Ct. 2966, 64 L.Ed.2d 841.
The tote bag and its contents had been reduced to the exclusive control of the police. Any immediate danger to the arresting officers had been neutralized for over *337fifteen minutes. As the United States Supreme Court noted in U. S. v. Chadwick (1977), 433 U.S. 1, 97 S.Ct. 2476, 53 L.Ed.2d 538:
“Once law enforcement officers have reduced luggage or other personal property not immediately associated with the person of the arrestee to their exclusive control, and there is no longer any danger that the arrestee might gain access to the property to seize a weapon or destroy evidence, a search of that property is no longer an incident of the arrest.”
97 S.Ct. at 2485.