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STATE EX REL. GALFORD v. MARK ANTHONY B.

No. 21254.

433 S.E.2d 41 (1993)

189 W.Va. 538

STATE of West Virginia ex rel. Cathy GALFORD, Petitioner Below, Appellee, v. MARK ANTHONY B., a Juvenile, and Bonnie L.B., His Mother, Respondents Below, Mark Anthony B., a Juvenile, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.

Decided April 23, 1993.

Dissenting Opinion by Justice Neely August 12, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry L. Koerber, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charleston, for appellee.

Martin V. Saffer, Marlinton, for appellant.

BROTHERTON, Justice:

In this case, we are asked to rule on the constitutionality of a school principal's strip search of a student who was suspected of stealing money from a teacher's purse.

The appellant, Mark A.B., was a fourteen-year-old eighth grade student at Marlinton Middle School in Pocahontas County, West Virginia. On January 22, 1992, teacher Cathy Galford discovered that $100 in cash was missing from her purse, which she had placed under her desk...

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