Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States

Martinez-Jimenez v. United States

489 U.S. 1099

Type
Opinion
Court
Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction
Federal
Date
1989-03-27
Topic
general

How later courts describe this case

  • during bank robbery defendant held toy gun downward by his side which eyewitnesses thought was handgun
  • plain view of pipe did not constitute probable cause to arrest for possession of paraphernalia
  • "jurors are generally unsympathetic toward drug abusers, particularly those who commit violent crime"

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C. A. 9th Cir. Certiorari denied.