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To: AdamSelene235
Have you never heard of reasonable articulable suspicion?

Yes...isn't that limited to roadblocks and tips on drunk drivers? Can this be used to frisk a ME man with a backback getting on a subway?

264 posted on 07/22/2005 12:16:09 PM PDT by noexcuses
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To: noexcuses
Yes...isn't that limited to roadblocks and tips on drunk drivers?

Er, no.

Can this be used to frisk a ME man with a backback getting on a subway?

Sure. If the backpack smells funny or he's wearing a big coat in the middle of a heat wave or a bomb dog indicates on him, etc.

A Terry frisk, mind you. Which does not include the contents of the backpack. However, the entire point of RAS is build probable cause for a search or arrest.

272 posted on 07/22/2005 12:20:41 PM PDT by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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