People of Michigan v. Larry Gerald Mead

**208 The defendant was a passenger in a car when the police pulled it over, ordered him out, and searched his backpack. He thinks that search was unconstitutional. A straightforward application of well-settled Fourth Amendment jurisprudence-complicated only by a peremptory order of this court, People v. LaBelle , 478 Mich. 891 , 732 N.W.2d 114 (2007) -says he's right.

We overrule LaBelle , conclude that the defendant had a legitimate expectation of privacy in his backpack, and hold that the warrantless search of the defendant's backpack was unreasonable because the driver lacked apparent…