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Baggy Pants Blues: Fashion Fad Immortalized in Reporter System

By Rebekah

Consider the officers who, while investigating a suspected drug deal, order a suspect from a vehicle, only to have the suspect’s saggy pants fall down. What to do? Should the officers tell the suspect to pull up his pants, and risk giving him access to a weapon if the pants contain one? Should they ignore the state of the pants and proceed with the investigation? Should they pull up the pants for the suspect and, if so, does that constitute a search? Read all about it in State v. Wiggins, 788 N.W.2d 509 (2010). Use the citation information to locate the case in print or use the citation or party names to locate it with your favorite search engine.
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Full post as published by Cocky Law Blawg on November 15, 2010 (boomark / email).