N.Y. Court of Appeals Rules Warrant Not Required for Strip Search
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Police conducting an arrest do not need a warrant to strip search a suspect, but they must obtain one to physically search a body cavity, New York's highest court has ruled.
The police saw the defendant in a high-drug-crime area engaging in a hand-to-hand sale of two small packages of crack cocaine and then retreating to a building for several minutes. They arrested him and transported him to the police station, where two male officers conducted a strip search and visual cavity inspection in a private detention cell.See the full content of this document
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N.Y. Court of Appeals Rules Warrant Not Required for Strip Search
The officers saw a string-like object hanging from the defendant's rectum and removed it.
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