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1991 United States Supreme Court case

California v. Acevedo, 500 U.S. 565 (1991), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court , which interpreted the Carroll doctrine to provide one rule to govern all automobile searches. The Court stated, "The police may search an automobile and the containers within it where they have probable cause to believe contraband or evidence is contained." The decision also overruled the distinctions in _United States v. Chadwick _ (1977) and _Arkansas v. Sanders _ (1979) which had previously held that, if probable cause existed to search an automobile, the police may perform a warrantless search of the automobile and the containers within it, but if the police only had probable cause to search a container in the automobile, the police first had to obtain a warrant before searching the container.

It thereby confirmed _Carroll v. United States _ (1925), which held that a warrantless search of an automobile based upon probable cause to believe that the vehicle contained evidence of crime in the light of an exigency arising out of the vehicle's likely disappearance did not contravene the Fourth Amendment 's Warrant Clause.

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Further reading

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  • Harlow, J. M. (1992). "California v. Acevedo: The Ominous March of a Loyal Foot Soldier". Louisiana Law Review. 52 (5): 1205–1266. ISSN  0024-6859 .
  • Pizarro, G. A. (1992). "California v. Acevedo: The Emerging Role of Law Enforcement Officers: Acting as Magistrate". Criminal Justice Journal. 13 (2): 367–384. ISSN  1478-1387 .
  • Tomkovicz, J. J. (1992). "California v. Acevedo: The Walls Close in on the Warrant Requirement". American Criminal Law Review. 29 (4): 1103–1177. ISSN  0164-0364 .

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United States Fourth Amendment case law

Scope of the Fourth Amendment

Definition of search

Definition of seizure

Third-party entry

Fourth Amendment standing

Warrant requirement

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Seizures

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