Court Opinion

ID: 9425478
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-02 23:14:51.21501+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:22:55.844718
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Mr. Justice Stewart,
concurring.
It seems to me that a persuasive claim might have been made in this case that the custodial arrest of the petitioner for a minor traffic offense violated his rights *267under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments. But no such claim has been made. Instead, the petitioner has fully conceded the constitutional validity of his custodial arrest. That being so, it follows that the incidental search of his person was also constitutionally valid. To hold otherwise would, as the Court makes clear in this case and in United States v. Robinson, ante, p. 218, mark an abrupt departure from settled constitutional precedent.