Florida v. Jimeno Decision:
The Supreme Court reversed. They held that: 1) a suspect's right to be free of
unreasonable searches is not violated where: a) after the suspect gives
permission to search his car, the officer opens a closed container found inside
that might reasonably contain the object of the search, and b) under the
circumstances, it is objectively reasonable for the officer to believe that the
scope of the suspect's consent permitted the officer to open that container,
and; 2) the officer did not violate the suspect's Fourth Amendment rights in the
case, given that: a) a reasonable person may be expected to know that narcotics
are generally carried in some form of container, and thus b) it was objectively
reasonable for the officer to conclude that the general consent to search the
car included consent to search containers within the car which might carry
drugs.
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