Griffin v. Ohio Dept. of Rehab. & Corr.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that same Fourth Amendment standards apply to all vehicle searches regardless of the particular area searched, including searches of a car's trunk
• holding that police may conduct a warrant-less search of both “an automobile and the containers within it where they have probable cause to believe contraband or evidence is contained”
• holding that same Fourth Amendment standards apply to all vehicle searches regardless of the particular area searched, including searches of a car’s trank
• holding that \[t]he police may search an automobile and the containers within it where they have probable cause to believe contraband or evidence is contained\
• concluding that police ‘‘may search automobile and containers within it where they have probable cause to believe contraband or evidence is contained’’
• holding that the police do not need a warrant to search a closed container found within a lawfully stopped vehicle when the officers have probable cause for the search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).