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STATE v. GLENN

649 S.W.2d 584 (1983)

STATE of Tennessee, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Curtis Anthony GLENN, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Tennessee.

March 21, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Leech, Jr., Atty. Gen., Jennifer Helton Small, Asst. Atty. Gen., Nashville, Ray Baker, Asst. Dist. Atty. Gen., Memphis, for plaintiff-appellant.

Edward Witt Chandler, Memphis, for defendant-appellee.

OPINION

DROWOTA, Justice.

We granted the State's Rule 11 application for permission to appeal in order to consider the scope of a warrantless inventory search of an automobile lawfully impounded, pursuant to T.C.A. § 52-1443(b)(4). In a split decision, the Court of Criminal Appeals held that "closed containers found in the trunk of an impounded vehicle, absent exigent circumstances, may not be opened." We must determine whether the Court of Criminal...

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