Maryland v. Pringle

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Maryland v. Pringle
Supreme Court of the United States
Argued November 3, 2003 Decided December 15, 2003
Full case name	State of Maryland v. Joseph Jermaine Pringle
Docket no.	02-809
Citations	540 U.S. 366 (more) 124 S. Ct. 795; 157 L. Ed. 2d 769; 2003 U.S. LEXIS 9198; 72 U.S.L.W. 4103; 2003 Cal. Daily Op. Service 10763; 17 Fla. L. Weekly Fed. S 83
Argument	Oral argument
Case history
Procedural	Writ of Certiorari to the Court of Appeals of Maryland
Holding
The arrest of Joseph Pringle did not violate the Fourth Amendment because the officer had probable cause to arrest him.
Court membership
Chief Justice William Rehnquist Associate Justices John P. Stevens · Sandra Day O'Connor Antonin Scalia · Anthony Kennedy David Souter · Clarence Thomas Ruth Bader Ginsburg · Stephen Breyer
Case opinion
Majority	Rehnquist, joined by unanimous
Laws applied
U.S. Const. amend. IV

Maryland v. Pringle, 540 U.S. 366 (2003), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court unanimously upheld the arrest of three passengers in an automobile where drugs were found. The case regards the reasonableness of the arrest of a passenger in an automobile.