13 Kan. App. 2d 300 - State v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis

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10 state decisions

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1. ““We find Philadelphia v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106 , 54 L. Ed. 2d 331 , 98 S. Ct. 330 (1977), to be controlling. In Mimms , the police stopped the defendant’s car for operating with an expired license plate. The police asked defendant to step out of the car and produce his license. As defendant got out of the car, the police noticed a large bulge under his jacket. The police frisked defendant and discovered a loaded revolver. The defendant was then arrested. The defendant filed a motion to suppress the revolver as being the fruit of an illegal search. The trial court denied the motion and convicted defendant, who appealed his conviction. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the conviction, holding the search violated the Fourth Amendment ‘because the officer’s order to respondent to get out of the car was an impermissible “seizure.” ’ Mimms, 434 U.S. at 107-08 . “The United States Supreme Court disagreed with this conclusion and held the order to get out of the car was reasonable and permissible under the Fourth Amendment. The Court attempted to balance two interests. The first was the officer’s interest in personal safety and the second was the intrusion into the driver’s personal liberty occasioned by the order to get out of the car. The court found the first interest to be both legitimate and weighty.’ Mimms, 434 U.S. at 110 . The court recognized the risks facing an officer who approaches a person seated in a car and the hazards of accidental injury from passing traffic if t”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Kimberlin