California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. McKinnon, 103 Cal.Rptr. 897, 500 P.2d 1097, 7 Cal.3d 899 (Cal. 1972):
'The exceptions to the requirement of a search warrant, aside from searches incident to an arrest, are where there is a danger of "imminent destruction, removal, or concealment of the property intended to be seized" or where the evidence is in plain sight, which 'is, in fact, no search for evidence.' (People v. Marshall, Supra, 69 Cal.2d 51, 56--57, 61, 69 Cal.Rptr. 585, 591, 588, 442 P.2d 665, 671, 668.)
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