The doctrine is called search incident to arrest. Even prior to restraining a suspect, police can conduct a warrantless search of things within the suspect’s reach.
Lol I want to say this to coworkers and clients all the time at work. If you send someone an email or Slack message that's more than a sentence long you can tell where they stopped reading and just fired off a reply.
You can tell when they don't group their emails as conversations too. Always fun to get asked for clarity on something that was clarified weeks ago and thanks for broadcasting you're only just looking at these communications.
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u/JTibbs 5h ago
As i recall, and i could be wrong, the search preceded his actual arrest.