ROBERT P. SMITH, Jr., Judge.
On Knight's appeal we identify constitutional standards for a warrantless police search into suitcases, boxes, and other closed containers found during a more superficial inventory of property within a seized automobile. A general inventory of automobile contents is justified by showing that the police had a caretaking responsibility for those contents, derived from their legitimate impoundment of an automobile upon arresting its driver...
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