102556P.pdf   02/18/2011  United States  v.  Christopher Taylor
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-2556
   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Wollman and Hansen, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - criminal law. Police officers did not comply with the
   Kansas City Police Department's standardized procedures for inventory
   searches when they failed to create a detailed, itemized inventory of
   defendant's possessions when they towed his vehicle; the circumstances
   of the search, combined with the specificity of the applicable
   standardized procedures and the quantity of items in the vehicle, made
   the officer's description of "Misc. Tools" insufficient to remove the
   inference that the search was investigatory; officers's testimony
   demonstrated that the inventory was a pretext for an investigatory search;
   as a result, the district court erred in denying defendant's motion to
   suppress the search. Judge Wollman, dissenting.