Saturday, August 6, 2011

A constitutional question regarding police searches and seizures..?

I am in a discussion with an associate about Constitutional rights regarding searches and seizures. Here is the hypothetical situation we are discussing. Assume you are driving in a car where you can pull the back passenger seats down using the lever, and there is a compartment in between the back seats and the trunk, about 1 foot by 1 foot and about 5 inches wide (although I don't see size a factor I wanted to describe what I'm talking about) and it has a latch to lock it so it wont open, although there is no key for this lock and you just have to twist it to make it vertical to open. Can an officer of the law open this compartment if it is in the locked position even though it is a simplistic lock? Can they move your seats down to perform this search? Thank you for any information possible!

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