Under the plain feel doctrine, the officer who is conducting a valid frisk of a person who has lawfully stopped may
A) actually reach inside the outer garments of the stopped individual to retrieve an object whose presence and feel, discerned during a frisk, clearly is reasonably indicative of criminality.
B) never reach inside the outer garments at any time unless a weapon-like lump has been felt by the officer while patting down the outer garments.
C) always conduct a frisk since that operation is merely part of the stop-and-frisk doctrine that has been approved by the Supreme Court of the Untied States.
D) always reach inside the outer garments or go into a pocket when an officer finds any object regardless of feel or touch when the identity of the object remains unknown.
E) none of the above answers constitutes a correct response.
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