Legal Opinion
Swain v. Spinney
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 26, 1997No. 96-2035PublishedCited by 221 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
Kelli Swain was subjected to a strip search and visual body cavity inspection, while being held in a cell in the North Reading, Massachusetts police station. This search occurred after Swain had been in the cell for twenty minutes, and more than an hour after she was arrested. She was arrested with her boyfriend as a result of his shoplifting; she was suspected of having possessed a small baggie of marijuana. The search was ordered, she says, by a police officer immediately after he had interrogated her, while knowing she was represented by counsel. He had become angry…
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