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To: DeLaine
If the your son has been "detained" with "reasonable articulable suspicion" of a crime (no blinker real or imaginary counts), anything he can immediately reach can be searched under the Terry Doctrine for the safety of the officer.

This includes a patdown and anything he can touch quickly. I.E. under the seat, the glovebox, etc.

It generally does not include zipped up backpacks and certainly not a locked briefcase where a person has a "reasonable expectation of privacy".

Always refuse a search but do not physically interfere when it occurs anyway.

For more details see "You and the Police!" by Boston T. Party.

Probable Cause is another matter.

5 posted on 02/22/2008 7:35:50 PM PST by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: AdamSelene235; DeLaine
+1 on the recommendation of "You and the Police!" by Boston T. Party.
98 posted on 02/23/2008 4:41:06 PM PST by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*RWVA)
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