Trousers Off Limits?
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A North Carolina man sentenced to up to 14 years for possessing crack-cocaine will get a new trial, after an appeals court ruled police performed an "unreasonable" search when they found the drugs down the man's pants.
Suspect Timothy Stone consented to a search after police pulled him over in 2002, but objected when one officer pulled his sweat pants away from his body and shone a flashlight at his groin — finding a vial of cocaine.
Prosecutors argued the search was admissible, since Stone's clothes weren't removed. But Judge Linda McGee writes no reasonable person would expect, "that he would be subjected to an inspection of his genitals."
A North Carolina man sentenced to up to 14 years for possessing crack-cocaine will get a new trial, after an appeals court ruled police performed an "unreasonable" search when they found the drugs down the man's pants.
Suspect Timothy Stone consented to a search after police pulled him over in 2002, but objected when one officer pulled his sweat pants away from his body and shone a flashlight at his groin — finding a vial of cocaine.
Prosecutors argued the search was admissible, since Stone's clothes weren't removed. But Judge Linda McGee writes no reasonable person would expect, "that he would be subjected to an inspection of his genitals."
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