Thornton v. United States
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thornton-v-united-states-324-8864685
title:
Thornton v. United States
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Thornton v. United States, 541 U.S. 615 (2004), was a decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that when a police officer makes a lawful custodial arrest of an automobile's occupant, the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the officer to search the vehicle's passenger compartment as a contemporaneous incident of arrest. Thornton extended New York v. Belton, ruling that it governs even when an officer does not make contact until the person arrested has left th
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2004 United States Supreme Court case
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2023-09-13T03:12:03Z
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