Legal Opinion
Thornton v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 24, 2004No. 03-5165PublishedCited by 575 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Rehnquist
In New York v. Belton, 453 U. S. 454 (1981), we held that when a police officer has made a lawful custodial arrest of an occupant of an automobile, the Fourth Amendment allows the officer to search the passenger compartment of that vehicle as a contemporaneous incident of arrest. We have granted certiorari twice before to determine whether Bel-ton’s rule is limited to situations where the officer makes contact with the occupant while the occupant is inside the vehicle, or whether it applies as well when the officer first makes contact with the arrestee after the latter has stepped out of his…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- New York v. BeltonSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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