Latasha Reed rented a car in New Jersey while Terrence Byrd waited outside the rental car facility. Her signed rental agreement warned that permitting an unauthorized driver to drive the car would violate the agreement. Reed listed no additional drivers on the form, but she gave the keys to Byrd upon leaving the building. Byrd stored personal belongings in the rental car's trunk and then left for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. After stopping Byrd for a traffic infraction, Pennsylvania State Troopers learned that the car was rented, that Byrd was not listed as an authorized driver, and that Byrd had prior drug and weapons convictions. Byrd told the officers that he had a marijuana cigarette in the car. The troopers then searched the car, discovering body armor and 49 bricks of heroin in the trunk. The evidence was turned over to federal authorities, who charged Byrd with federal drug and other crimes. Byrd challenged the admissibility of the drug evidence because his Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the troopers' search of the rental car. Is he correct?

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