BRORBY, Circuit Judge.
The United States Government brings this appeal challenging a district court order suppressing contraband evidence obtained in an automobile search. The district court held that covering the cargo area of a sport utility vehicle creates the "functional equivalent" of a trunk and places the covered area beyond the permissible scope of an automobile search incident to arrest. We exercise jurisdiction pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3731 and reverse...
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