Single Purpose Container Doctrine, allow search of a hidden compartment?

The Search & Seizure Show by Anthony Bandiero

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Alright guys, welcome to another roadside chat. Today's question is, from an officer in Indiana, would the single purpose container doctrine allow cops to search a vehicles hidden compartment? Alright, so the first thing we want to learn is what is a single purpose container? Okay, a single purpose container is this doctrine that basically says some containers by their shape by their manner of under totality circumstances, the way that they're kept, the what they're packaged in. Things on the outside, are so telling of what to contain what the contents are, that a reasonable officer would know that only contraband is inside. So that's a roundabout way. So in other words, a single purpose container is a container that announces its c ... 

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