Chambers v. Maroney, 399 U.S. 42 (1970), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court applied the Carroll doctrine[1] in a case with a significant factual difference—the search took place after the vehicle was moved to the stationhouse.

[2] After a gas station robbery, a vehicle fitting the description of the robbers' car was stopped.

Inside were people wearing clothing matching the description of that worn by the robbers.

[4] It made no constitutional difference here that the search followed the seizure because the probable cause which developed on the street still existed at the station house (where the vehicle was impounded).

[5] For this purpose, it is significant to note that the automobile exception and the SITA doctrine are quite different.