179 Md. App. 666 - McDowell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “The Long dissenters assume that limitation (ii) [that the search for weapons must be limited to areas in which a weapon may be placed or hidden] does not prohibit search of containers in the car, and that would seem to be correct. But whether it always allows search of a container large enough to contain a weapon is unclear. For one thing, the Court in Long had no occasion to consider whether, if the container is soft, a “pat-down” of it and discovery of a hard object within are prerequisites to search into the container, just as is true of search of the suspect’s person.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 52 Va. App. 548 - Jones v. Commonwealth

2. “a standard gym bag, two and a half feet by a foot and a half,”

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