United States v. Cheryl Lavonn Flippin

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• holding that, after police entered a motel room with the suspect’s consent, it was permissible to seize and search a make-up bag held by the suspect based on mere reasonable suspicion that it contained a weapon
• noting that the “protective search was upheld in Buie because the police had a legitimate right to enter the home”
• holding an officer’s reasonable suspicion that the suspect was armed was sufficient justification for seizure of suspect’s makeup bag and exigent circumstances justified the subsequent warrantless search of the closed bag
• requiring reasonable suspicion before an officer may forcibly remove a bag from the possession of an occupant during a consent search
• holding a suspect’s sudden grabbing of a make-up bag while under investigative detention by an officer in her hotel room, coupled with the officer’s knowledge that her companion had been carrying a large knife, suggested an attempt to arm herself
• upholding search of make-up bag where \[mjerely gaining control of the bag did not dissipate the danger and exigent circumstances\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).