Can a police officer search your glove box or trunk without a warrant?
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Boy.  There are a lot of people answering this question who really don't know the rules in this country.  I speak from 11 years of law enforcement experience, many of those specifically developing traffic offenses into greater crimes.  So people don't think I am feeding you a line of police BS, I included the laws that established each of the rights and reasons to search.  Feel free to research them yourself so you can see I am giving you the straight scoop.\n\nThere are many times when the police can search your entire car, including your trunk, glove box, and even locked containers within your car, without a warrant.  I'll lay out four of the most common techniques I use to search cars.\n\n(1) Consent.  Can't go wrong here.  If you ask for consent to search and the driver (or person in charge of the vehicle) gives you consent, you can search the entire vehicle.  The consenting party has the authority to withdraw their consent and/or limit the areas you can search.\n\nOn reasons (2) through (4) consent makes no difference.  If the police can meet one of these requirements, they will legally search your car with or without your consent.\n\n(2) Probable Cause.  If you develop probable cause during a traffic stop, you may search the vehicle without a warrant.  This is commonly called the "motor vehicle exception" to the search warrant rule.  The authority for the police to do so was first established under a US supreme court case called Carroll v. United States.  The courts have since expanded on this case and allowed the police to search items within the vehicle regardless of who claims ownership of the items.  Under this technique, the police can only search areas where it is reasonable to believe the contraband they are searching for may be found.  For example, if the police believe they are lookng for a rifle, they would not be able to search a purse.  However, if they find the rifle and now believe they might be looking ammunition, the search of the purse is good.\n\n(3) Pursuant to arrest.  If the police arrest you for a bookable offense while operating a motor vehicle, they may search the areas under your control (including the passenger compartment and possibly other areas of the car) for contraband or weapons that you may have discarded.  This authority is established under case law named Chimel v. California.\n\n(4) Inventory search - If the police have the authority to tow your car, they may search it under the premise that they need to inventory all items contained within the car prior to towing the car.  These searches were upheld under the community caretaking doctrine established under South Dakota v. Opperman.\n\nThere are other ways to get into a car.  Too many to go into here.  Truthfully, there is almost NEVER a time when the police need a warrant to search a car.  In my 11 years, I think I have obtained a warrant for two or three of the probably 1000 cars I have searched, and those cars were firmly secured in the police impound lot pending the warrant.\n\nHope this settles your dispute.
405087
No. Cops need the permission of the owner of the house to search it without a warrant or reasonable suspicion that someone's life was in danger.\n\nEdit: I wanted to add that it is disturbing how many people are saying your brother could let the police in. It is completely illegal. How could any reasonable person think that a 14 year-old, clearly not an adult, could have authority to consent?
709039
For personal phone records to be summoned in court, they will require a warrant. However, you being the good police officer, you will have nothing to hide (won't you?) and give it without hesitation.\n\nIf a girlfriend and her police officer partner did this then shame on them.
264150
Yes, with warrants.  But if you are suspected of terrorist ties, they might monitor you without a warrant.
884370
The police do not need to suspect anything to run a license plate, driver's license or warrant check.  The average citizen however, does not have access to the database needed to look up a license plate.
804740
If they have a warrant, or reasonable cause, to search the house then they can search all of it.\n\nIf they actually admitted they needed to go get a warrant then anything they have already found is inadmissible in court, due to illegal search.
861557
If they arrest you or see some contraband "in plain site" they can search the vehicle.\n\nIf they just pull you over, they can ask, and you can say no.\n\nThey can make you wait for a K-9 or they can detain you until they get a court order.\n\n*But if you have nothing contraband in the vehicle, and tell them no - then they will be very suspicious of you.
414347
NOPE!!!! All states allow officers to operate their radar or laser gun from inside or outside their car
745275
Make them get a search warrant. \n If you give them permission or open the hood you are giving consent to a search.  \nThey must have probable cause.  More than likely they can't prove it to a judge, so no search warrant will be produced.\nOf course be ready for the repercussions of upholding your rights.  They don't like citizens who rebuke their abuse of power.......
244489
At the time he pulled over he may have wanted to assist you but this was before he recieved a dispatch of disturbance. He may have returned to arrest you for the disturbance but found that you was gone so towed the car...police have the right to search your car if probable cause is warranted.\nNormally what they would have done is put a ugly orange colored sticker on your car telling you to move it within a certain time and if not removed then they would tow it but not search it..they did what they did to you because they had probable cause.
913429
Go up to the nearest police officer and ask him to check. Turning yourself in if you have a warrant is easier on you then letting them come find you anyway.
296814
Take this example:\nYou get pulled over in YOUR car, with a bunch of your friends.  Police decide they have reasonable cause to search your vehicle, and since you know you've done nothing wrong, and there's nothing bad in the car, why wait for a warrant?  What you don't know, is that one of your friends just dropped a bag of some illicit drug under one of your car seats.  What happens?  (Well, in all actuality, they may just make off with it and everybody gets let off b/c they don't feel like dealing with it for a little 20 sack & 5 people, but thats not the point here.)  Everybody gets searched, some or all get arrested, your car goes to impound, and SOMEBODY is going to get charged with possession.  Guess what else?  The dope is in YOUR car, and they can, therefore, charge you with possession of that drug BECAUSE it was in your car, and so were you (and so was everybody else).  \nMake sense?\n\nA more simple example:  You're 12.  Your parents find cigarettes in your room.  You exclaim that they're not yours, and you were holding them for a friend.  Who gets grounded?  The person in possession, NOT the person whose cigs they actually are.
342934
Yes If they have a search warrant. It's "POLICE OFFICER search warrant" ... BAMB!! goes the front door. "HIT THE GROUND SCUM BAG" and then you best be sucking dirt!
797785
Any time the officer has a reason to have you step out of the car, the officer can perform a limited search of you and your vehicle. That reason can be something as simple as you acting nervous, moving around a lot, suspicious hand movements, aggressive attitude, or even if the officer makes it a standard procedure on every traffic stop he/she makes.\n\nThe U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the officer has a right to ensure his/her own safety when dealing with any member of the public for any legal reason. That means any time that an officer comes into contact with a person on any type of police call: suspicous person, domestic disturbance, disorderly conduct, traffic violation, etc.\n\nAccording to the Court, the officer can conduct a "pat down" search of the person, checking for weapons. This means the officer can pat down the outside of person's clothing feeling for weapons. If an officer feels anything that, based on his/her training and experience, could possibly be a weapon, drugs, or other illegal item, the officer can then go inside the pocket to determine the true nature of that item. They are looking for weapons, but if they find anything else, it'll stick in court.\n\nThe officer is also allowed to conduct what is referred to as a "wing-span" search of the vehicle to check for weapons. This search covers any area of the vehicle that could be reached by any occupant of the vehicle. If there is more than one person in the car, this will pretty much cover the entire passenger compartment of the car. It does not, however, include a locked glove box or the trunk, unless the inside of the trunk was accessible to a person inside the car (such as if the back seat was laid forward, leading into the trunk). The officer is checking for weapons, but if they find anything else illegal, it will stick in court.\n\nSo to answer your question more simply, yes, a police officer can search your car.
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You may refuse the search. Once you give consent to search, you can repeal it at any time and the Police Officer must stop. The only time in which you have no choice is called search incident to arrest.\n\nIf they do not stop and find something it is not admissible in court. It's called "fruit of the poisonous tree" I hope this helps.  Cop in Maine
939012
No, someone has to let them in, and if you refuse, it is your right, but they can stay there until they get a search warrant, just like if you get pulled over and they want to search your vehichle, (IF YOU ARE NOT HIDING ANYTHING) all you have to keep saying is \n"you may not search my car, it is my right!!\nIf they ask you why you won't let them, say it is my right, but if you have a blunt in your ashtray, they can go ahead and search it because propable cause
56161
I am an attorney and I do not understand this question.  You do not authorize search warrants.  Judges issue search warrants based upon probable cause.  You can "authorize" a search, in a manner of speaking, by consenting to a search of your car WITHOUT a warrant.  Is that what you meant to say?  \nThis forum does not lend itself to resolution of complicated legal problems, especially by people without legal training.  I would consult an attorney immediately, as further delay may compromise your rights.