United States v. Jorge Enrique Arango

How courts have described this case

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• factoring in the inability of officer to contact the actual owner of the car to determine if the driver was in lawful possession
• finding it unnecessary to examine the lawfulness of a vehicle search that generated probable cause to arrest because the defendant lacked Fourth Amendment standing to challenge the search
• single inquiry related to contraband justified by defendant’s inability to provide credible proof of lawful possession of vehicle and the fact that vehicle contained an inadequate amount of luggage for the two-week vacation claimed by defendant
• finding probable cause to arrest based on evidence of a secret compartment along with “the inadequate amount of luggage in the truck for [the defendant’s] purported two- week vacation”
• lacking standing in a vehicle used without evidence of lawful possession
• where driver could not show entitlement to vehicle and vehicle not reported as stolen on NCIC, officer justified in detaining driver while attempting to contact vehicle’s registered owners

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).