Legal Opinion
State v. Long
Court of Appeals of North Carolina
Decided August 29, 1978No. 788SC206PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MITCHELL, Judge.
The State assigns as error the order of the trial court excluding the evidence seized from the defendant as being the fruit of a “frisk” in violation of G.S. 15A-255. The defendant, however, contends that the Air Force investigator exceeded the authority to search embodied in that statute, as the “frisk” went beyond “an external patting of the clothing of those present” when the investigator reached inside the defendant’s boot. The defendant additionally contends that the search of the defendant was not authorized by G.S. 15A-256 as the “Authority to Search and Seize” issued…
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