If police stop a car with fraudulent plates, can it be searched for documents?

The Search & Seizure Show by Anthony Bandiero

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All right, this question comes from an officer in Indiana. And the question is is, so if we have if I stop a car with fraudulent plates, can I search it for the documents, to prove ownership, insurance and so forth. And so here's, you know, here's kind of the context here. So I'm a police officer in Indiana. And we, the officer stopped a car that was being driven around with some paper plates. Now he ran the plates. And he said that it should have returned as just expired, but it didn't, I don't think it returned at all. So some kind of fictitious release result switching that the plates are fictitious, stop the driver stop the vehicle contacted the driver, and she says, I just bought this car off Facebook marketplace, paid cash, no title,  ... 

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