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Passengers Beware: You Can Be Frisked

By Nicole Black, Esq.

This week's Daily Record column is entitled "Passengers Beware: You Can Be Frisked." A pdf of the article can be found here and my past Daily Record articles can be accessed here.******Passengers Beware: You Can Be FriskedIn Arizona v. Johnson, No. 07-1122, the U.S. Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether police officers who perform a lawful traffic stop have the authority to frisk the vehicle?s passengers. The facts in Johnson are not complicated: The defendant was the passenger of a vehicle that was lawfully stopped after it was discovered that the vehicle?s registration was suspended. At the time of...

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Full post as published by Sui Generis on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).