A split en banc panel of the Superior Court, reversing a trial court’s suppression order, said that police were justified in seizing drugs in a protective weapons search of a car during a traffic stop.
On a 6-3 vote in a juvenile case captioned In the Interest of O.J. , the majority said the officer articulated a sufficient reason for the protective search, basing his suspicions on what he described as “a lot of movement of the arms and the hands in the center area of the vehicle” as he approached the car.
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