The following excerpt is from U.S. v. Spetz, 721 F.2d 1457 (9th Cir. 1983):
The automobile exception to the warrant requirement of the fourth amendment had its genesis in Carroll v. United States, 267 U.S. 132, 45 S.Ct. 280, 69 L.Ed. 543 (1925). The exception is predicated on the longstanding distinction
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