Woods v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “A. It was that when she came in, she got a very surprised and scared expression on her face, and then tried to go around the security like she was entering through the JP Five door. Q. And then what did she do? A. Then she turned around and started to leave. When we asked her where she needed to go, she said she needed to go to the fifth floor. [[Image here]] A. We told her how to get to the fifth floor, and at that point she said, “No, I need to go back out to my car first,” and this is something that we- have seen a lot of other times. That’s when we know somebody usually has something in their purse. McCullen testified that on approximately fifty occasions, he had seen a similar expression on the face of a person before discovering a weapon or drugs. He acknowledged on cross-examination, however, that he had seen the same expression on persons who did not prove to have a weapon or contraband. Richardson also testified at the second hearing. He stated that appellant was stopped because, “We wanted to run [the purse] through the x-ray machine and see if there was a weapon or contraband in it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Woods v. State