Searches of Public Transportation

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1. Does confirmation that a person matches an informant’s innocent clothing description necessarily corroborate the allege…
2. An officer receives an unverified anonymous text and opens a passenger’s opaque sack without independent observations o…
3. The officer first unlawfully probes a sack, discovers contraband and then arrests its holder. May the arrest alone retr…
4. Officials invoke Saluday for a selective tip-driven search having none of its least-intrusive, nondiscrimination, publi…
5. Does Sapla prohibit all genuinely routine, minimally intrusive public-transport security inspections?
6. Compare Sapla’s intrusive search with the transport inspection discussed in Saluday.
7. Why does a passenger’s match to an anonymous clothing description not automatically establish probable cause to open an…
8. Police discover drugs by an unsupported sack search and then arrest the passenger. Explain why search incident to arres…