Pena v. County of Suffolk

How courts have described this case

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• finding that once door to vehicle had been lawfully opened, registration card in plain view was legally seized
• finding that once door to vehicle had been lawfully opened, registration card in plain view was legally seized
• holding seizure of evidence in “plain view” reasonable under Fourth Amendment
• upholding introduction of evidence discovered by police officer as he was securing an impounded vehicle from the elements after conducting inventory search
• items appearing within the plain view of an officer who has a right to be in that position are subject to seizure
• items appearing within the plain view of an officer who has a right to be in that position are subject to seizure

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).