Legal Opinion
United States v. Rasberry
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided February 14, 2018No. 16-2465PPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Todd Rasberry found himself in a jam: during a pat-down incident to a Terry stop, see Terry v. Ohio , 392 U.S. 1 , 19-20, 88 S.Ct. 1868 , 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), an agent of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) discovered a softball-sized object stashed in Rasberry's undershorts. Believing that the object contained drugs, the agent arrested Rasberry on the spot. A subsequent search of Rasberry's person proved the agent's prescience.
Following his indictment for controlled substance offenses, Rasberry moved to suppress, arguing among other things that the seizure of the…
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