Strip Search, Knife Use ‘Unreasonable,’ Court Says

By Deborah Elkins
Published: January 10, 2012

Tags: 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Barbara Milano Keenan, Search & Seizure

Although police did not completely pull down defendant’s pants during a search incident to his arrest on a public residential street, but shone a flashlight down his pants and then used a knife to cut a sandwich baggie with suspected narcotics off defendant’s genitals, the search was a strip search that violated defendant’s Fourth Amendment ...

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