Is there any case law where a police officer has been found not guilty of a reasonable search but of making a reasonable pat-down search on a passenger in a passenger car?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Superior Court (Backley), 149 Cal.Rptr. 349, 85 Cal.App.3d 1020 (Cal. App. 1978):
Backey appears to concede at least he makes no contrary contention that assuming the right to detain, the officer had a corresponding right for his own safety to make, as he did, a minimally intrusive pat-down search. (See People v. Juarez, 35 Cal.App.3d 631, 636, 110 Cal.Rptr. 865.)
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