Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Wing Ng
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 4, 1995PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilkins, J.
This case, here on further appellate review, concerns the circumstances in which a companion of a person *237who is arrested pursuant to a warrant lawfully may be subjected to a “pat frisk.” The Appeals Court rejected the idea that the police have an automatic right to pat frisk a companion in the company of one who has been lawfully arrested. Commonwealth v. Wing Ng, 37 Mass. App. Ct. 283, 287 (1994). It concluded that opinions favoring such a bright-line rule were not consistent with the Fourth Amendment principles of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), under which the frisk of a person is…
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