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STATE v. ALLENSWORTH

No. 06-1507.

748 N.W.2d 789 (2008)

STATE of Iowa, Appellant, v. Allen Robert ALLENSWORTH, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

May 9, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Elisabeth S. Reynoldson and Mary E. Tabor, Assistant Attorneys General, John P. Sarcone, County Attorney, and Stephanie Cox, Assistant County Attorney, for appellant.

Mark C. Smith, State Appellate Defender, and Stephan J. Japuntich, Assistant State Appellate Defender, for appellee.

HECHT, Justice.

We granted the State's application for discretionary review of the district court's order suppressing methamphetamine seized by law enforcement officers from a motor vehicle. We conclude the warrantless search of the steering column of the vehicle was supported by probable cause, and was therefore permissible under the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement. Accordingly, we reverse the district court's order.

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