PEOPLE v. TOOHEY

Docket No. 88974, (Calendar No. 1).

438 Mich. 265 (1991)

475 N.W.2d 16

PEOPLE v. TOOHEY

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided August 27, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Gay Secor Hardy, Solicitor General, William F. Delhey, Prosecuting Attorney, and Marilyn A. Eisenbraun, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Frank K. Rhodes, III, for the defendant.


BRICKLEY, J.

We are asked to determine whether evidence seized by the police after impounding the defendant's car and conducting an inventory search should be suppressed as fruits of an unconstitutional search and seizure. We hold that the impoundment and inventory search were constitutionally valid because the police acted in accordance with established departmental procedures.

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