The Miller decision interpreted State law as requiring a search warrant to search a vehicle impounded at a police station, in contrast to the 1970 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Chambers v. Maroney. The Miller decision demonstrated that abandoning Federal precedent enabled Connecticut to clarify its automobile search and seizure law for its State police and its courts. In addition, although the police reaction to the Miller decision is unknown, it is still possible to conclude that the decision will provide citizens increased privacy protection. Whether the police do not react to Miller or whether they increase the amount of warrantless roadside searches they perform, when the police impound a vehicle and a search warrant is denied, the Miller decision will protect citizens from unjustified warrantless searches that would have taken place prior to Miller. Thus, the Connecticut Supreme Court's departure from Federal precedent was unmistakably sound and justifiable. Footnotes