People v. Andrews

I concur that the judgments as to each defendant must be affirmed and agree with the views expressed by the majority, excepting the rationale that because the police have a right to impound a vehicle they also have the right to inventory its contents without the benefit of a search warrant.

The search of the vehicle’s trunk in the instant case was a reasonable search not because the police had a right to impound the vehicle, but because the search was closely related to the reason defendants were arrested and the reason the car had been impounded. (Cooper v. California, 386 U.S. 58, 61 [17…