4.3: Vehicle & Container Searches

Question 1

Rationale for vehicle searches

Answer 1

Ready mobility and pervasive regulation (diminished privacy)

Question 2

Showing for vehicle searches

Answer 2

PC to search the vehicle

Question 3

Scope for vehicle searches

Answer 3

Search wherever there is PC to search; search either where the vehicle is seized or elsewhere; bright line rule

Question 4

Showing to search of a container not in a vehicle

Answer 4

PC & a search warrant

Question 5

Showing to seize of a container not in vehicle

Answer 5

PC (a warrant is not required)

Question 6

Showing to search a container in a vehicle

Answer 6

PC to search (search warrant is not required)

Question 7

Showing to search a container belonging to a passenger in a vehicle

Answer 7

PC to search (search warrant is not required)

Question 8

Can a passenger be searched as a container?

Answer 8

No, including containers on his person

Question 9

Rationale for a lawful impoundment

Answer 9

Serves a community caretaking function

Question 10

What is considered a vehicle?

Answer 10

Any readily mobile mode of transportation with its own locomotive power, regardless of whether it is also used for residential purposes; does not include immobilized vehicles