and or evidence This rule which came from the court case Carroll vs. the United States, also applies to an assortment of vehicles including: motor homes, a house boat, and a room on a train. The vehicle exception is based in the Courts findings that the expectation of privacy with respect to ones vehicle is lower than that regarding ones home or office. This comes mainly from the fact that inherent mobility of vehicles, their periodic inspection and licensing requirements, and the public nature of vehicle travel where both its occupants and contents are in plain view (Kubura 1).A Wyoming court ruled last year that police were justified only in searching the car for drugs a driver may have had with him and therefore can not search any personal belongings of passengers. This protects drivers in a case where they do not know or are mistaken about the contents in his or her vehicle (Carelli 2) Police Officers Often Misuse and Overuse their Powers when it comes to Conducting Searches on Persons or PropertyThe ruling came from an incident in which a David Young was pulled over in the early morning hours on July 23, 1995. The officer saw Young with a hypodermic needle in his pocket. He then acknowledged that he had used it to take drugs (The New Oregon1). The officers then searched the car (under reasonable suspicion) and asked the two female passengerss to get out of the car. One of them left her purse on the back seat and inside it police found drug paraphernalia and liquid methamphetamine. The Wyoming Supreme Court threw out her conviction last year, ruling that police were only allowed to search the car and did not have a right to search her purse (Richey 1). Lisa Kemler of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers stated that you get in a car and as a passenger you basically have no rights. Almost anything goes as long as police find evidence of a crime. Andrew Fine of the Legal Aid Society expressed his concern t...
