United States v. Chavez

Docket Number19-2123
Decision Date20 January 2021
Before the warrantless seizure of a firearm from a car, the driver, defendant Manuel Chavez, had driven the car at least a couple hundred feet up a private,d irt roadway and parked it outside his isolated trailer home. The district court approved just one of the government’s asserted justifications for the seizure of the firearm (a .38 special caliber Amadeo Rossi S.A.), ruling that the deputy’s seizure of the firearm was reasonable as part of an inventory of the car’s contents in preparation...

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  • Aguilera-Valdez v. Davenport
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — District of Colorado
    • September 29, 2022
    ... ... BUSTOS, JOHN CORDOVA, CORDOVA TOWING LLC, MOUNTAIN STATES LENDERS, LLC, and RICHARD WOJCIK, Defendants. Civil Action No. 21-cv-01209-STV United States ... United States v. Chavez , 985 F.3d 1234, 1240 (10th ... Cir. 2021) (citing United States v. Ventresca , 380 ... ...
  • Jones v. United States
    • United States
    • U.S. Claims Court
    • March 29, 2023
    ... ... if a weapon or other evidence is in plain view, to seize such ... evidence, "the government must establish probable cause ... that [the possessor of the firearm] had committed, or was ... committing, a crime involving the firearm." See ... United States v. Chavez , 985 F.3d 1234, 1246 (10th Cir ... 2021) (citing Texas v. Brown , 460 U.S. 730, 738 ... (1983)). Second, officers may search and seize evidence with ... consent. Schneckloth v. Bustamonte , 412 U.S. 218, ... 219 (1973) (noting that a consent search is one of the ... ...
  • United States v. Ramos
    • United States
    • U.S. Court of Appeals — Tenth Circuit
    • December 15, 2023
    ...public safety and promoting the efficient movement of traffic." Id. at 1245 (quotation omitted); see also United States v. Chavez, 985 F.3d 1234, 1243 (10th Cir. 2021) (holding that "public safety lies at the heart" of the community-caretaking doctrine). That is, a community-caretaking impo......
  • United States v. Trujillo
    • United States
    • U.S. District Court — District of New Mexico
    • November 29, 2023
    ...procedures and for the purpose of protecting the car and its contents.” Id. (emphasis added) (internal quotations omitted); see also Chavez, 985 F.3d at 1242. Therefore, criteria must regulate inventory searches to ensure that they are not used as a ruse for a general rummaging in order to ......
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1 books & journal articles
  • Motor vehicle searches
    • United States
    • James Publishing Practical Law Books Suppressing Criminal Evidence Fourth amendment searches and seizures
    • April 1, 2022
    ...Ct App. 2021). When a driver flees a car, they do not automatically lose standing under the abandonment doctrine. In U.S. v. Chavez , 985 F.3d 1234 (10th Cir. 2021), a driver being chased by sheriff deputies drove up a long private dirt road that led to an isolated trailer, then got out, ra......