[Inventory searches] are deemed reasonable--even without a warrant--but only to serve narrow purposes: protecting an owner's property while it's in police custody and the police from claims of lost or stolen property or from hazardous objects contained within a criminal defendant's personal property. Searching Wear's luggage didn't serve any of those purposes because there was no plan (and no need) to take her personal property into police custody.As a result, the COA reverses the conviction.
[Update: the state did not file a PR and the mandate issued on October 8, 2009).
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