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Court decision
eases rules on
auto searches
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme.
Court yesterday gave the nation's
police far greater authority to search
through automobiles without first ob-
taining warrants.
By a 6-3 vote, the court said police do
not need warrants to search even closed
containers locked in a car's trunk if an
officer has reason to believe any part of
the vehicle contains contraband.
THE DECISION overturned the
court's own 1981 riling that police need
warrants to search closed parcels in a
trunk - a reversal that reflects the con--
fusion that automobile-search cases
have spawned in recent years.
Yesterday's ruling, authored by
Jusice John Paul Stevens, promised to
give police a "bright line" to follow in
balancing their authority and the
privacy of individuals.
"In this class of cases, a search ienot
unreasonable if based on facts that
would justify the issuance of a warrant,
even though a warrant has not actually,
been obtained," Stevens said. He
warned police that there are limits to
thatpower, however.
"JUST AS probable cause to believe
that a stolen lawnmower may be found
in a garage will not support a warrant
to search an upstairs bedroom,
probable cause to believe that un-
documented aliens are being transpor-
ted in a van will not justify an un-
warranted search of a suitcase,"
Stevens said.
The court last year gave police
arresting someone in acar the power to
search all containers that may be in the
passenger compartment.-
So yesterday's ruling means that if
police arest someone in a car for
suspected drug dealing, they can sear-
ch the entire car without first getting a
warrant. The arrest justifies a search
of the passenger compartment and
everything in it, and a stated "probable
cause" justifies a search of the trunk
and everything in it.
THE DECISION reinstated the
heroin-possession conviction and prison
sentence of Albert "Bandit" Ross,
arrested in the nation's capital four
years ago.
Police had been tipped that Ross was
selling drugs out of his car, After
arresting Ross, police opened his car
trunk and opened a folded-over brown
paper bag. Heroin was found inside the
bag.
A federal appeals court struck down
Ross' conviction and ruled that the
search of the bag - conducted without a
warrant - violated his constitutional
protection against ynreasonable sear-
ches. The Supreme Court disagreed.
"IF PROBABLE cause justifies the
warrantless search of a lawfully stop-
ped vehicle it justifies the search of
every part of the vehicle and its conten-
ts that may concedal the object of the
search," Stevens wrote.
Joining him were Chief Justice
Warren Burger and Justices Lewis
Powell, William Rehnquist and Sandra
Day O'Connor. Justices Thurgood
Marshall, William Brennan and Byron
White dissented.
In a biting opposing opinion for Bren-
nan and himself, Marshall accused the
court's majority of showing contempt
for the Constitution.
"The majority today not only repeals
all realistic limits on warrantless
automobile searches, it repeals the
Fourth Amendment warrant
requirement itself," he said.
"By equating a police officer's
estimation of probable cause with a
magistrate's, the court utterly
disregards the value of a neutral and
detached magistrate," Marshall said.
Today
The weather
Skies will be cloudy today and temperatures will drop to the pleasant
mid 70s. U
Pac-Man and wife
KYLE RILEY and Jo Linda Richardson of Des Moines, Iowa weree
married last Sunday where they met -next to the Pac-Man game at a
local shoppiing mall. "We met, dated and fell in love playing Pac-Man at the
Fun Factory," said Richardson, 17. So the couple decided to be married
amidst the 70 electronic and video games that played a big part in their cour-
tship. After the wedding, a reception at the Des Moines Marriott Hotel,
featured a cake with Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man on a pedestal overlooking a
simulated video playing field of the Pac-Man game. To make the couple feel
at home, the Marriott also had a Pac-Man game installed in the bridal suite
and provided a celebratory roll of quarters.a
Gasoline warriors
AYMAN DOUGAN and Richard Hogue, of Hope, Ark., stood next
to Highway 29, each waiting for the other to make a move. When one.
dropped the price of gasoline at his service station, the other would counter.
After a four-hour war, Dougan gave up. By that time, he was selling gas at
his self-service Texaco pumps for 30 cents a gallon. But Hogue had lowered
the price for regular gas at his full-service Exxon station to 10 cents. Dougan
said he couldn't go any lower. And quicker than it had dropped, the price was
up to one dollar a gallon, still12 cents shy of the cost when the gas war began
last Tuesday. Dougan started the fight, then came in Wednesday morning to
see that Hogue had bested his offer. The two men Stood by their price boards
along the highway as the price kept falling, 10 cents per skirmish.
"He asked me, 'How low are you willing to go?' and J told him, 'I'm going to
stay with you,'" Dougan said. But Dougan finally threw in the towel. "I
figured that was the only way he was going to stop it," he said. The men said
they weren't swamped with customers during the duel. U
Happenings
Films
CFT - Walkabout, 3:30 and 7:15 p.m., Don't Look Now, 5:15 and 9 p.m.,
Michigan Theatre.
AAFC - Moby Dick, 7p.m., Outcast of the Islands, 9 p.m., Lorch.
Cinema Two - Little Women, 7 p.m., Grand Hotel, 9:05 p.m., Aud. A,
Angell.
Miscellaneous
Department of Theater and Drama - "Androcles and the Lion," 8 p.m.,
Mendelssohn Theater.
Museum of Art - Art Break, "Leonardo's Return to Vinvi," 12:10 p.m.
Student Wood and Craft Shop - Power tool safety class, 6 p.m., 537 SAB.
To submit items for the Happenings Column, send them in carp of
Happenings, The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard St.; Ann Arbor, MI. 48109.
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Vol. XCII, No. 20-S
Wednesday, June 2, 1982
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