It looks to me like the police had probable cause to search the trunk.
Nonsense. They had probable cause to suspect that the car was stolen, given the bogus tags -- however, this has no relevance to a search of the trunk (what, did the cops think he was hiding another stolen car in there?)
16 posted on 07/26/2005 5:35:03 AM PDT by steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)