R. M. v. STATE OF FLORIDA

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “furtive movement provided a legal basis for the protective search”
• finding that a passenger lacked standing to challenge evidence found under the floor mat where he was sitting
• upholding search for weapons under car floor mat after defendant was 21 observed making furtive movement in that direction
• movement of backseat passenger “as if placing an object on the floor” established reasonable cause to lift floor mat as part of protective search
• defendant’s furtive movement of “moving his torso and bending over as if placing an object on the floor” gave rise to reasonable suspicion
• subjective expectation of privacy demonstrated where defendant had hidden counterfeit bills under a rubber mat in an automobile, and placed his feet on it, “clearly evidencing his desire to keep these items private”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).