LAW 605 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Motor Vehicle Exception, Arrest Warrant
23 Dec 2019
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Case #1: police open trunk, immediately spot paper bag, open it, find marijuana: admitted. Case #2: after finding drugs in paper bag, search rest of trunk and find cocaine under blanket: suppressed. Even though can search everywhere in car, ability to search only runs to places where have pc to believe there is evidence. If pc is just on bag and don"t have. Pc to believe drugs anywhere else, can only search bag. Case #3: acevedo facts, except police don"t find contraband in paper bag. Search rest of trunk, find transparent bags of cocaine under blanket: suppressed. Being wrong is not evidence that supports probable cause. Open briefcase, find gun, police know d a felon: probably admitted. Pc ran to paper bag, entitled to search anywhere in car where paper bag could be. Police get to search until they find the paper bag. They don"t arrest him, but seize and open the paper bags, find drugs: suppressed, chadwick applies.
