Posted by Carol on 6/27/06

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Interesting fact pattern came up today, no case law on it
yet in my state. Driver is pulled over and arrested for
driving under suspension. Arguably a bad stop but then
car is searched for "inventory" incident to towing.
Officer notices the cover on the passenger-side air bag is
loose and he takes it off. there is a Wal-mart bag inside
the airbag compartment. Officer looks inside the bag and
finds several psuedophed tablets. both driver and
passenger are charged with assembling meth. Here's my
question: is the search into the airbag compartment
overbroad? How far can they go to take an inventory?
into the trunk? into a locked glove box? taking out the
airbags? Any experience or ideas from the group?

Re: Search of airbags, 6/28/06, by Carol.

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