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If an Automobile Has Been Lawfully Impounded

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If an automobile has been lawfully impounded:


A) search and seizure provisions of the Fourth Amendment do not apply, because this is a moving vehicle situation for which no warrant is generally required.
B) and the officer is making a routine inventory as required by department policy, he or she may seize contraband or illegally possessed evidence if the officer discovers the evidence inside the vehicle during the inventory search or discovers contraband or illegally possessed evidence within a container within the automobile.
C) the officer may seize what he or she recognizes to be illegally possessed goods but cannot seize or search any containers found inside the car.
D) articles may be lawfully seized from the car even if the police department has no policy regulating inventory searches because such inventory searches are reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.

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