Arizona+v.+Grant

Background A man named Grant was driving with a suspended licence and was arrested. The police then went on to search the entire car and found some undefined weapon and an illegal drug. They took him to court on charges of drug possession. He claimed that the ruling was unfair under the fourth amendment and the search was not necessary because the officers were not in danger, and were not associated to the arrest. He went to court and they decided to limit the searches based on whether the arrest requires a search.

Majority In the majority Stevens wrote that they can only search your passenger apartments if there is reasonable belief that there may be evidence or a possible threat to the officer. Dissenting The dissent was very short and only said that they had overruled New York v. Belton and Thornton v. United States.