In re Claim of Smith

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• “[o]nce it became evident that defendant could not be issued a [traffic] summons on the spot because of his inability to produce any identification, the officers were warranted in arresting him to remove him to the police station”
• automobile exception applies to closed, and even locked, containers and compartments within a car.
• “Once it became evident that defendant could not be issued a summons on the spot because of his inability to produce identification, the officers were warranted in arresting him to remove him to the police station and in frisking him before doing so.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).