immediately apparent requirement

Criminal procedure. The principle that a police officer must have probable cause to believe that an item is contraband before seizing it.

• This plain-view exception to the warrant requirement was first announced in Coolidge v. New Hampshire, 403 U.S. 443, 91 S.Ct. 2022 (1971).

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