Fernandez v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• permitting a federal agent’s second look at items taken by state police pursuant to a valid arrest on state charges as the defendant could not reasonably expect a right to privacy in the serial numbers of his personal money stored in police custody
• defendant cannot decline to present additional information about indigency when any conflict with fifth amendment “is speculative and prospective only”
• “the equal protection clause does not ... ‘require things which are different in fact ... to be treated in law as thought they were the same’ ”
• the defendant had no reasonable expectation of privacy with respect to property taken from him pursuant to a valid inventory search regardless of the fact that the defendant was arrested on state charges and the search took place several days after the arrest