DENNIS, Circuit Judge, dissenting: I respectfully dissent from the majority opinion. I agree fully with the conclusions and sentiments of Judge Politz’s dissenting opinion. As he points out, this is not a typical automobile inventory case but a “unique situation of an admittedly pretextual stop and arrest, followed by a pretextual impoundment, to obtain a pretextual inventory search for drugs”' — -“[a] combinati…
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