Can a search of the house of a suspect in a drug possession case be upheld?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Dillon v. Superior Court, 102 Cal.Rptr. 161, 497 P.2d 505, 7 Cal.3d 305 (Cal. 1972):
The search of the house may not be upheld on the basis of the rule of People v. Block, 6 Cal.3d 239, 98 Cal.Rptr. 657, 491 P.2d 9, permitting searches for additional suspects. In Block, a police officer, after arresting defendant and five others during an alleged 'pot party' at his house, went upstairs in a search of other possible suspects. While searching he observed marijuana.
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