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Thornton v. United States 541 U.S. 615 (2004) was a decision by the United States Supreme Court which held that when a police officer makes a lawful custodial arrest of an automobile’s occupant the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows the officer to search the vehicle’s passenger compartment as a contemporaneous incident of arrest. Thornton extended New York v.

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