Posted on 09/15/2010 1:15:15 AM PDT by Dallas59
It's not often that a court gets to cite "Pants on the Ground" as a precedent.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals apparently could not resist referring to the Internet hit rap song when it ruled Tuesday that a police officer did not make a "search" when she pulled up the baggy pants of a man being investigated in a suspected drug deal in St. Paul. As she was hauling up his sagging pants, the officer found a gun.
Frank Irving Wiggins, now 24, of Minneapolis was convicted of possession of a firearm by an ineligible person and sentenced to five years in prison.
"This case requires us to determine the constitutionality of a novel police procedure which, as far as we can tell, has never been reviewed on appeal by this court or any other," Judge Kevin Ross wrote for a three-judge panel that included Thomas Kalitowski and Wilhelmina Wright.
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After watching these baggy pants guys walk with their girlfriends/wives, I realized why their pants fall down -— because they DON’T wear the pants in the family.
My uncle, a sherrif’s deputy, loves baggy pants..most perps can only take about a dozen running steps before they fall down and trip.
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