Gant was arrested by Arizona police for operating a vehicle with a suspended license. While he was handcuffed, officers searched his car and found a gun and a bag of cocaine. During trial, Gant petitioned to seize the gun and cocaine because police failed to serve a warrant to search his vehicle, in violation of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures. Prior to the Supreme Court's opinion in Arizona v. Gant, it was standard practice for police to conduct a search-and-arrest search of the interior of a vehicle. Justifications for the stop-and-frisk incident are to allow the police to secure any weapons the arrestee might try to use to resist arrest or escape and to preserve evidence. This case is a ruling that the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution requires law enforcement officers to pose a continuing threat to their safety posed by an arrestee, in order to justify a warrantless vehicular search conducted after recent occupants of the vehicle were arrested and made safe. ...