In a Fourth Amendment case argued Tuesday at the Supreme Court, the justices considered whether, during a traffic stop, a police officer may conduct a pat-down search of a passenger if the officer believes the passenger to be armed and dangerous, but does not have reasonable grounds to believe he or she is engaging in criminal activity.
During the argument hour, several of the justices questioned the breadth of the standard advocated by the government for determining the reasonableness of pat-down searches, and the court grappled with the issue of when a seizure ends in the context of a vehicle stop.
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