People v. Gonzales

This case poses 2 important questions. The first is: May police who stop an automobile on a Michigan highway to issue a traffic ticket also routinely search the automobile under Michigan law? We answer this question in the negative. The second is: Are certain amendments to the Michigan Constitution authorizing admission into evidence of concealed weapons, however seized outside the cur-tilage of a dwelling house, repugnant to the United States Constitution? Under controlling decisions of *251the United States supreme court, we answer this question in the negative also.

Defendant Louis Gonzales was…