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123530P.pdf 08/14/2014 Jonathan Jacobson v. James McCormick
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3530
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Shepherd and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. Defendants, jail officers who subjected
plaintiff to a strip search following his arrest for driving under the
influence of alcohol, were entitled to qualified immunity on plaintiff's
claim that the search violated his Fourth Amendment rights because, at the
time of the September, 2009 search, a reasonable officer had a solid basis
to believe that strip searching an arrestee was constitutional if the
officer had reasonable suspicion that the detainee possessed contraband;
here, defendant's admission that he had smoked marijuana shortly before
his arrest created that suspicion.