Barnes v. W.S. Newell, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• applying reasoning of Summers, supra, to justify pat-down search of occupants of private residence during execution of search warrant
• following federal “plain feel” doctrine and concluding that “article first, § 7 does not categorically bar apolice officer from seizing, without a warrant, nonthreatening contraband that the officer feels during a lawful patdown search”
• officer who testified as to his experience with narcotics felt rock of cocaine in pocket
• officer who testified as to his experience with narcotics felt rock of cocaine in pocket
• ‘‘[t]he determination of a witness’ credibility is the special function of the trial court’’ (internal quotation marks omitted)
• “[t]he determination of a witness' credibility is the special function of the trial court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).