Cost v. Com.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• reaching the same conclusion about capsules detected by “plain feel” because they could have contained “legal medication dispensed in capsule form”
• finding even a well-educated hunch is insufficient to establish probable cause
• the “plain feel” doctrine permits seizure only “when the character of the object felt by the officer is immediately apparent either as a weapon or some form of contraband”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).