Describe a search incident to a pretext arrest, and explain its significance

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A pretext stop or arrest occurs when police officers use the objective basis for one event, commonly a traffic offense, as a means to do a search or an investigation for a more serious crime that the officers believe the stopped individual may have committed, but for which they do not have probable cause.

For example, police officers may believe that a driver has drugs in a car. However, they do not have probable cause to search the car for drugs. The police could follow the car until the driver commits a traffic violation and then stop the car for this. If the state law allows, they could then arrest the driver for the traffic violation and conduct a search incident to lawful arrest of the car's interior, pursuant to New York v. Belton. If the search turns up drugs, then the driver would be arrested for that more serious offense.

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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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