When the police arrest a hospital patient, may they seize and search the personal effects he relinquished to the hospital for safekeeping in order to receive emergency treatment? Or does the patient retain an interest in his property sufficient to require the police to obtain a warrant before taking it? The question posed by this case is a recurring and unresolved one as perpetrators as...
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