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Old Dec 31, 2007 | 12:17 pm
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Originally Posted by MarcPHL
FliesWay2Much -- great thoughts and quite well articulated; thanks for taking the time to connect these ideas and bundle them into a package that seems to be scattered throughout the forum.

Bocastephen -- I suspect that many would interpret #4 above as the reasonable suspicion necessary to proceed from casual* to involuntary encounter*


*apologies to those in the know if I've misused the states of interaction
Which is why we need this ruling - there can be no transfer from administrative to involuntary without a warrant or permission by the person being searched and it must be clearly defined that the act of declining or ending a search cannot be used as the sole determination of reasonable cause or suspicion.
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