Legal Opinion
State v. Pierce
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Decided June 15, 1994PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
STEIN, J.
This appeal concerns the scope of a police officer’s authority to conduct a search of articles contained in the passenger compartment of an automobile following the arrest of the driver for operating the vehicle while his license is suspended. See N.J.SA 39:3-40. The State supports the validity of the search by relying on New York v. Belton, 453 U.S. 454, 101 S.Ct. 2860, 69 L.Ed.2d 768 (1981), which held that “when a policeman has made a lawful custodial arrest of the occupant of an automobile, he may, as a contemporaneous incident of that…
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