United States v. Cecil Kenton Epperson

How courts have described this case

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• upholding airport search conducted under precursor to FAA blanket-search program, on modified Terry-analysis
• noting in Fourth Amendment analysis of the use of magnetometers at airports that \[s]uch a search is more than reasonable; it is a compelling necessity to protect essential air commerce and the lives of passengers\
• upholding frisk where person activated metal detector, was subsequently asked to remove metal objects from clothing or person and pass through a second time, and then activated detector a second time before officer frisked his jacket
• Fourteen of the eighty instances of air piracy oceurring prior to June 1970 involved the use of bombs
• frisk for concealed weapon justifiable where metal detector raised reasonable suspicion that boarding airline passenger had a gun
• “Indeed, the very purpose and function of a magnetometer [is] to search for metal and disclose its presence in areas where there is a normal expectation of privacy.”

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