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Whether a person operating a rental vehicle without a valid driver's license has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the vehicle's locked trunk compartment
Question Presented Under the Fourth Amendment and Byrd v. United States, 584 U.S. (2018), may a person who operates a rental vehicle without a valid driver’s license nevertheless have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the vehicle’s locked trunk compartment, where the person enjoys exclusive, non-criminal possession and control over the vehicle’s trunk, and where the person has affirmatively exercised their ability to exclude others from the trunk? Second Question Presented When the police seize a vehicle without a warrant or probable cause under the “community caretaking” exception to the Fourth Amendment established in Colorado v. Bertine, 479 U.S. 367 (1987), must the seizure be effected pursuant to a “standard procedure,” as held by the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Seventh, Eighth, Tenth, and D.C. Circuits, or is the warrantless seizure justified as long as a reviewing court can determine on an ad hoc basis that the seizure was reasonable, as the First, Second, Third, and Fifth Circuits have held? i