Reynolds v. United States Postal Service

How later courts describe this case

• refusing to apply Belton’s “bright-line” rule where the arrestee has voluntarily exited the vehicle and begun walking away from the vehicle before officers initiated contact with the arrestee
• requiring “a case-by-case analysis of the reasonableness of the search” when a police officer initiates contact with a defendant after “the defendant has voluntarily exited the automobile and begun walking away”
• one reason rules of procedural default require a timely objection is to provide the trial court or the other party an opportunity to remove the basis of the objection
• where defendant voluntarily exited the auto and began walking away before police initiated contact, Belton not applicable and Chimel standard applies
• "Where the defendant has voluntarily exited the automobile and begun walking away from the automobile before the officer has initiated contact with him, the case does not fit within Belton's bright-line rule."
• in capital murder prosecution for "intentional" murder of more than one person during the same criminal transaction, transferred intent statute authorized the prosecution under one theory that defendant intentionally killed the intended victim and the unintended victim by the same act
• search of vehicle valid as incident to arrest when officer saw defendant sitting inside vehicle and then squatting at rear of vehicle, and defendant subsequently arrested in area immediately next to vehicle
• failure to explain how trial was fundamentally unfair