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This case involves the search of a vehicle and jacket after four men were arrested for drug possession. A police officer pulled over a speeding car with four men inside and smelled marijuana. He arrested the men, searched the passenger compartment of the car, and found cocaine in the jacket of one of the arrestees, Roger Belton. Belton argued the cocaine should be suppressed as evidence because it was obtained from an unlawful search. The Supreme Court ultimately held that when officers make a lawful arrest

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Don Villegas

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