Summarize the Supreme Court's view on the proper scope of a frisk

What will be an ideal response?


A number of cases have focused on the permissible scope of a frisk, and three important limits have been imposed. First, a frisk can be nothing more than a pat-down of someone's outer clothing. Groping or squeezing is not permissible. Second, a frisk must be motivated by the desire to promote officer safety, not by the desire to seek out any form of contraband. That is, the sole purpose of a Terry pat-down is to protect the officer from weapons that might be used by the suspect during the encounter. Finally, for an officer to legally seize an item during the course of a frisk, that item must be immediately apparent to the officer as contraband.

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