TATE, Justice.
The crucial issue of this appeal concerns the alleged validity of a warrantless "inventory search" of the automobile of the defendant, who was under custodial arrest. The alleged purpose of the inventory search was to safeguard the property of the accused for which the law enforcement agency might be accountable, since its officers were taking possession of the vehicle and removing it from the scene as a consequence of its driver's arrest.
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