Search of a Moving Vehicle

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1. What standard ordinarily supports an extensive moving-vehicle search beyond a routine visual check?
2. What ordinarily distinguishes a routine vehicle check from an extensive search in Sapla?
3. Is vehicle mobility by itself an unlimited exception to the warrant requirement?
4. Police receive only an unverified anonymous description of a passenger and bag, observe no corroborating suspicious con…
5. An officer performs a nonintrusive visual check, then proposes opening closed private baggage solely because the initia…
6. At a roadblock, officers target a particular passenger’s opaque sack based solely on an anonymous call. They observe no…
7. A court invalidates an intrusive vehicle search based solely on an unverified tip. The prosecution says this means all …
8. Distinguish a routine visual vehicle check from an extensive search.
9. Explain why discovery of contraband does not retroactively establish the missing probable cause.
10. Why must a court examine the actual target of a supposed moving-vehicle search?
11. Under Evardo, must circumstances asserted to justify the intrusive vehicle search occur before it begins?
12. Does inclusion on an unspecified police watch list by itself establish the factual basis for an intrusive vehicle searc…