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Police Searching Car May Include Passenger's Thing
Posted by FoM on April 06, 1999 at 07:50:17 PT
So everyone is guilty til proven innocent?
Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON Police officers who have probable cause to search a car for illegal drugs can search the personal belongings of passengers who are themselves under no suspicion of illegal activity, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in its latest decision expanding police authority over motorists and their passengers. 
The 6-3 decision overturned a ruling by the Supreme Court of Wyoming, which held last year that a closed package belonging to a passenger could not be included in a general search of a car and its contents unless there was reason to suspect the passenger of a crime or the driver of concealing evidence in the passenger's belongings.Click on the link for the whole article. I believe you must be registered with New York Times to get the link. So where are people's personal liberties anymore?
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