You're trying to be a street cop.

Hey guys, welcome this episode of the street cop podcast.

Your host, founder and CEO of Street Cop Training.

My name is Dennis Benino.

And today I have a case that I'd like to read to you in an episode of street cop training case law shorts brought to you by

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So let's talk about a big case comes out in 1973 called Katie v. Dombrovsky.

Katie V. Dombrovsky is a case in which the U.S. Supreme Court considered whether police officers had the authority to conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle that was impounded after an officer had been involved in an accident. So here's the case background.

This case involved an incident where an off-duty police officer, Katie, was involved in a

case. So here's the case background. This case involved an incident where an off-duty police

officer, Katie, was involved in an accident in which he was injured.

He was taken to the hospital and his car was towed to a nearby garage.

At the garage, another police officer, Dumbrowski, who was not involved in the accident, went to the car and conducted a warrantless search.

The officer found a gun in the car and seized it.

Katie, the officer who owned a car, was later charged with a crime related to the firearm.

Katie argued that the search violated his Fourth Amendment rights, which protected him against unreasonable searches and seizures because it was conducted without a warrant.

Here's your key legal issue.

The primary issue before the court was whether a police officer, acting in an official capacity, could lawfully search a vehicle that had been impounded without a warrant and without probable cause based on the idea of preserving and protecting

evidence in the vehicle. Here's what the Supreme Court said. The Supreme Court ruled in a seven to

favor of the search, upholding the search of the vehicle as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.

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