Court Opinion

ID: 9550909
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:44:43.157178+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:22:41.596160
License: Public Domain

HOLMAN, J.,
concurring.
It is my conclusion that there were no exigent circumstances which made it proper for the police to search defendant’s vehicle. The driver was under arrest and the police were in possession of the vehicle’s keys. It is always possible that there is another set of keys which some third party might possess, but if this possibility is sufficient to amount to exigent circumstances, the police will almost always be able to seach a vehicle because there will always be this possibility.1 Defendant was not arrested in his vehicle and the search of the vehicle cannot be justified as incident to his arrest.

 My personal inclination would be to hold that no part of a vehicle is an enclave of privacy, but such a ruling would be impossible under the present decisions of the United States Supreme Court.