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THE POLICE DID NOT HAVE INFORMATION DEMONSTRATING THE TEMPORARY TEXAS REGISTRATION WAS INVALID AT THE TIME THEY IMPOUNDED THE CAR; THE INVENTORY SEARCH WAS IMPROPER AND THE HANDGUNS SHOULD HAVE BEEN SUPPRESSED (FOURTH DEPT).

The Fourth Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the officers who stopped defendant’s vehicle did not have any information that the temporary Texas registration was invalid at the time the vehicle was impounded. Therefore the inventory search was invalid and the handguns should have been suppressed:

“An inventory search is exactly what its name suggests, a search designed to properly catalogue the contents of the item searched” … . Inventory searches may not be used as “a ruse for a general rummaging in order to discover incriminating evidence” … and, unlike a traffic stop, “will be constitutionally invalid where the search was merely a pretext to search for evidence of a crime” … . “Only a lawfully impounded vehicle may be subjected to an inventory search” … , and “[t]he People bear the threshold burden of demonstrating that the subject vehicle was lawfully impounded at the time of the inventory search” … . People v Boatwright, 2026 NY Slip Op 04071, Fourth Dept 6-26-26

Practice Point: Without a valid reason to impound a car, an inventory search of the car is not justified.​

 

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