Cars and Containers

Question 1

Chambers v. Maroney (1970)

Answer 1

If police could’ve done a search without a warrant at the time of the stop, they can also do a warrantless search a short while later at the police station.

Question 2

Carroll v. United States (1925)

Answer 2

Cars and other conveyances may be searched without a warrant provided there’s probable cause to believe that the officers are entitled to seize.

Question 3

California v. Carney (1985)

Answer 3

a vehicle that can be readily moved and that has a reduced expectation of privacy due to its use as a licensed motor vehicle may be searched without a warrant provided probable cause exists.

Question 4

Collins v. Virginia (2018)

Answer 4

A warrantless search of a vehicle in a driveway falls outside the scope of the automobile exception because the vehicle is on curtilage.

Question 5

Cardwell v. Lewis (1971)

Answer 5

Vehicles have a lesser expectation of privacy because their function is transportation and seldom serves as one’s residence or as the repository of personal effects

Question 6

South Dakota v. Opperman (1976)

Answer 6

Probable cause and warrant requirements don’t apply to inventory seraches so long as police follow standard procedures

Question 7

Florida v. Wells (1990)

Answer 7

police aren’t permitted to open a locked suitcase discovered during an inventory search

Question 8

U.S. v. Chadwick (1977)

Answer 8

automobile privacy aspects don’t apply to luggage, as it is intended to be a repository of personal effects

Question 9

U.S. v. Ross (1982)

Answer 9

When police have probable cause to search a car without a warrant, they may also search any container found during the search that’s large enough to contain the evidence they’re looking for

Question 10

California v. Acevado (1991)

Answer 10

Warrants are never needed for containers found it vehicles; only probable cause is needed for the search