Can a police officer search a container that is not owned by a passenger?

California, United States of America


The following excerpt is from People v. Jenkins, 22 Cal.4th 900, 95 Cal.Rptr.2d 377, 997 P.2d 1044 (Cal. 2000):

11. We note that those cases limiting the ability of police officers to search containers belonging to passengers of vehicles not owned by the passenger, in the absence of valid consent by the passenger, may require reexamination after the high court's recent decision in Wyoming v. Houghton (1999) 526 U.S. 295, 119 S.Ct. 1297, 143 L.Ed.2d 408, which holds that police officers with probable cause to search a vehicle ordinarily may search the belongings of passengers, when such belongings reasonably may be believed to contain the object of the search.

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