Search & Seizure – Traffic Stop – Body Cavity Search

By Virginia Lawyers Weekly
Published: December 9, 2002

Where a police officer claimed he initially stopped defendant's vehicle on the George Washington Memorial Parkway because of defendant's cracked windshield, but he arrested defendant after he smelled marijuana and defendant admitted he smoked marijuana earlier in the day, the officer violated defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by conducting a body cavity search by the ...

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