The Supreme Court on Thursday held that searches conducted in objectively reasonable reliance on binding appellate precedent are not subject to the exclusionary rule — even when the court later overrules the precedent. The case is Davis v. United States.
This case involved a major shift in the law about when police could search a vehicle after the arrest of the driver. In New York v. Belton, 453 U. S. 454 (1981), the Court permitted the police to search the passenger compartment of an automobile incident to arrest of a recent occupants, regardless of whether the arrestee was within reaching distance of the vehicle at the time of the arrest.
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