PEOPLE v. CHAVERS

Docket No. Crim. 21542.

33 Cal.3d 462 (1983)

658 P.2d 96

189 Cal. Rptr. 169

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. MICHAEL CHAVERS, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

February 17, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Neil E. Campbell, Jr., under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Quin Denvir, State Public Defender, and Therene Powell, Deputy State Public Defender, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendant and Appellant.

George Deukmejian, Attorney General, Robert H. Philibosian, Chief Assistant Attorney General, S. Clark Moore, Assistant Attorney General, Norman H. Sokolow and Pamela M. Nelson, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

D. Lowell Jensen, District Attorney (Alameda), and John J. Meehan, Assistant District Attorney, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

RICHARDSON, J.

May police officers who act with probable cause to suspect the presence of contraband somewhere in a lawfully stopped vehicle conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle, its glove compartment, and a shaving kit found therein? We conclude that the search was proper and will affirm defendant's conviction based upon it.

Defendant Michael Chavers appeals from a judgment rendered upon his plea of nolo contendere...

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