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

You're host founder and CEO of Streetcop Trading.

My name is Dennis Benito.

And today is a case law short.

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And today we are talking about United States v. Forest. It's a good case. A lot of you

need to be familiar with because it talks about when you get probable cause to search a car.

That includes attached trailers. This is a big misnomer. People think you need to have

independent canine alerts on trailers or have to have independent probable cause to search

trailers attached to vehicles. And it couldn't be further from the truth. So this is a case out of the Fifth Circuit Court of

Appeals from 1980. And so they interpret the Fourth Amendment at the Court of Appeals. And for you

guys listening to this, I have not found case law that departs from this in any part of the country.

Even if you had probable cause and you're in a state where the automobile exception is not accepted, they require you to go get a warrant or find independent

agency. But this would still apply if you had probable cause to search a vehicle and there was

a trailer attached to it. The search warrant would also give you the trailer as well. So let's go

over what happened here in 1980. William Henry Forrest and his wife, Maxine Forrest, were convicted by a jury on one count of knowingly buying and receiving and possessing a stolen shipment of eggs in violation of 18 USC 659 and 2.

And on one knowingly buying, receiving and possessing a stolen vehicle in violation of 18C, 659, and 2315.

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