People v. Berdahl

JUSTICE GABRIEL delivered the Opinion of the Court.

¶1 This case principally asks us to decide whether Brent Berdahl's federal and state constitutional rights were violated when a law enforcement officer required him to submit to a pat-down search before providing a consensual ride in the officer's police car. 1 We now conclude that when Berdahl accepted the officer's offer of a courtesy ride in the officer's car and then submitted to a brief pat down for weapons before getting into the car, he, by his conduct, voluntarily consented to the officer's limited pat-down search, and therefore, the…