Justin R. v. Morgan F.

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• holding that a police officer may conduct a search of the passenger compartment of an automobile incident to arrest
• holding that the search of a jacket on the floor of a car was valid as incident to a lawful arrest
• holding that “when a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of that arrest, search the passenger compartment of that automobile”
• finding that the search of defendant's vehicle was justified under Belton after he was stopped for having an expired tag and then validly arrested based on an outstanding warrant for his arrest
• finding that cocaine discovered during warrantless search incident to arrest admissible at trial
• defining “container,” for purposes of search incident to a lawful custodial arrest, as “any object capable of holding another object,” including “luggage, boxes, bags, clothing, and the like”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).