California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Hamilton, 221 Cal.Rptr. 858, 41 Cal.3d 211 (Cal. 1985):
"As with other exceptions to the warrant requirement, any authorization to search pursuant to the booking process must be limited to ' "the circumstances which rendered its initiation permissible." ' (Chimel v. California (1969) 395 U.S. 752, 89 S.Ct. 2034, 23 L.Ed.2d 685.) Here, all purposes which might underlie a booking search exception
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