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HARRIS v. COM.

Record No. 900252.

400 S.E.2d 191 (1991)

Albert Peete HARRIS v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 11, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. David Whaley (Elizabeth Dashiell Scher, Morchower, Luxton and Whaley, Richmond, on brief), for appellant.

H. Elizabeth Shaffer, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Mary Sue Terry, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: All the Justices.

HASSELL, Justice.

The sole issue that we consider in this appeal is whether a police officer violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures when he removed a film canister from the defendant's pocket and searched the canister.

On June 16, 1987, an informant notified the Organized Crime Intelligence Section of the Henrico County Police Department that Paul Stanley would be driving a car in Henrico County. The informant...

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