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The facts of this case demonstrate a prime danger of insufficiently regulated inventory searches: police may use the excuse of an "inventory search" as a pretext for broad searches of vehicles and their contents.
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...[T]he testimony at the suppression hearing suggests that the officer used the need to "inventory" as an excuse to search for drugs.
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