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MINNESOTA VS. DICKERSON
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-https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/508/366/case.html
-http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/91-2019.ZO.html
-http://www.casebriefs.com/blog/law/criminal-procedure/criminal-procedure-keyed-to-weinreb/the-fourth-amendment-arrest-and-search-and-seizure/minnesota-v-dickerson/
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MINNESOTA VS. DICKERSON
The court said that the officer in this case had gone beyond the limits of a lawful pat down search before he could determine that the object was contraband, making the search and the subsequent seizure unlawful under the Fourth Amendment.
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Timothy Dickerson, was in a known drug area. An officer investigated by ordering a pat down of Dickerson to search for any weapons. During that search, he felt a small lump in his coat. Without further evidence, he reached in and grabbed the lump and found it was cocaine. Dickerson said that the cocaine should be suppressed as evidence because the officer violated his right against unreasonable search and seizure under the fourth amendment. The court case was June 7th, 1993.
This impacts us because it’s illegal for police officers to just pull something out of your pocket during a weapons pat down if they know its not a weapon.