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Police obtain a warrant to search a home for stolen electronics. While searching a kitchen drawer large enough to hold a laptop, an officer finds a baggie of cocaine in plain view and seizes it. The defendant moves to suppress the cocaine. What is the strongest basis to admit it?

Inevitable discovery, because the drugs would have been found eventually The automobile exception, because contraband in a container is always admissible The plain-view doctrine, because the officer was lawfully in a place he could be and the incriminating nature was immediately apparent Consent, because executing a warrant implies the occupant consented to the search

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The plain-view doctrine, because the officer was lawfully in a place he could be and the incriminating nature was immediately apparent

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