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Suppose a traffic officer pulls over a person for speeding, looks in the driver ’s window, and clearly sees what appears to be a bag of heroin resting on the passenger seat. Under the ____________________, law enforcement officers may seize the drugs without a warrant.​

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Answer:

"Plain view doctrine"

Step-by-step explanation:

The "plain view doctrine" law grants an officer of the law the right to search or seize, without getting a search warrant as long as the evidence of a crime is clearly visible.

For this law to be applied, the law enforcement officer must be somewhere he is meant to be at the time the evidence is discovered, and must have come across the evidence by chance.

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