immediately-apparent requirement

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). “An object may not be seized from a […]

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).