Camden v. Commonwealth

Opinion

COLEMAN, J.

In this criminal appeal, we hold that an officer’s discovery of a pipe that was characteristic of the type used for smoking marijuana found during a consensual weapons “pat-down” of the person provided the officer with probable cause to search the individual for marijuana, including looking into his wallet, where the drug might be secreted. Because of the exigency presented by a roadside vehicle stop, the officer was not required to obtain a warrant to search the appellant. Thus, we hold that the warrantless search was valid, and the officers legally seized the LSD found in…