Housen v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that officer had six years of training in drug identification, had frequently encountered marijuana violations, and had made over 100 marijuana arrests
• finding the seizure of a plastic bag com taining marijuana was improper under the “plain feel doctrine” where officer “merely described the item he felt as a ‘plastic-type bag’ with ‘some substance inside of it’ that could possibly be marijuana”
• “If, during a lawful pat-down ... the officer [develops] probable cause to believe that the defendant is carrying contraband, the officer may seize the contraband.”
• officer stated substance could possibly be marijuana

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).