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PEOPLE v. CHAMPION

Docket No. 100138, Calender No. 5.

549 N.W.2d 849 (1996)

452 Mich. 92

PEOPLE of the State of Michigan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kenneth Ray CHAMPION, Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 2, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Michael D. Thomas, Prosecuting Attorney, and Janet M. Boes, Edwin R. Brown, and Catherine Semel, Assistant Attorneys General, Saginaw, for People.

Daniel D. Bremer, Burton, for defendant.

Donald Martin, President, John D. O'Hair, Prosecuting Attorney, and Timothy A. Baughman, Chief, Research, Training and Appeals, Detroit, for amicus curiae Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan.

OPINION

MALLETT, Justice.

In this case, we consider for the first time the "plain feel" exception to the warrant requirement as adopted by the United States Supreme Court in Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366, 113 S.Ct. 2130, 124 L.Ed.2d 334 (1993). In particular, this case requires us to articulate the degree of certainty required that an object felt during a patdown...

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