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· 5/22/1978

United States v. Lucinda Palmer

Citations

  • 575 F.2d 721
  • 1978 U.S. App. LEXIS 11081

How courts have described this case

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

  • distinguishing 28 “between a search of pockets and a strip search [because] there can be a wide variety of 1 types of intrusion, with varying degrees of intrusiveness”
  • unexplained wearing of girdle justified officer’s request that suspect raise girdle during search
  • search requiring a woman to lift her skirts and reveal an undergarment was not a full strip search “and require[d] less justification to render it reasonable”

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Judges: Merrill, Kennedy, Bartels

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