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My name is Dennis Benino. Today I'm going to read some case law excerpts, which will help you do

your job better and help conceptualize how these applications apply in the field for you to know how to work within the confines of the Fourth Amendment.

All right, today we're going to talk about Wyoming v. Houghton.

This is a case at a 1998, and I'll read what happened at the case and what the US Supreme Court said.

This is a good one for everybody to know and essentially it's addressing topics related to

the automobile exception, namely a passenger's belongings in the vehicle if they are found inside the car with probable cause they are

searchable. Let me read the case. During a routine traffic stop a Wyoming Highway

Patrol officer noticed a

hypodermic syringe in the driver's shirt pocket, which the driver

admitted using to take drugs. The officer then searched the passenger compartment

for contraband, removing and searching what responded and passenger in car claimed was her purse.

He found drug paraphernalia there and arrested the respondent on drug charges.

The trial court denied her motion to suppress all evidence from the purse as fruit of the

unlawful search. Holy the officer fruit of the unlawful search.

Holding the officer had probable cause to search the car for contraband and by extension

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