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''California v. Acevedo'', 500 U.S. 565 (1991), was a decision of the
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, which interpreted the ''Carroll'' doctrine to provide one rule to govern all
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searches. The Court stated, "The police may search an automobile and the containers within it where they have
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to believe contraband or evidence is contained." The decision also overruled the distinctions in '' United States v. Chadwick'' (1977) and '' Arkansas v. Sanders'' (1979) which had previously held that, if probable cause existed to search an automobile, the police may perform a warrantless search of the automobile and the containers within it, but if the police only had probable cause to search a container in the automobile, the police first had to obtain a warrant before searching the container. It thereby confirmed '' Carroll v. United States'' (1925), which held that a warrantless search of an automobile based upon probable cause to believe that the vehicle contained evidence of crime in the light of an exigency arising out of the vehicle's likely disappearance did not contravene the Fourth Amendment's Warrant Clause.


See also

* List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 500 *
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List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Rehnquist Court This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Rehnquist Court, the tenure of Chief Justice William Rehnquist from September 26, 1986, through September 3, 2005. The cases are listed chronol ...
*'' Arizona v. Gant'', *'' United States v. Chadwick,'' 433 U.S. 1 (1977) *'' Arkansas v. Sanders,'' 442 U.S. 753 (1979)


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* United States Supreme Court cases United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court United States Supreme Court decisions that overrule a prior Supreme Court decision United States Fourth Amendment case law 1991 in United States case law 1991 in California Legal history of California {{SCOTUS-Rehnquist-stub