STATE v. CONNERS

No. 33964.

994 P.2d 44 (2000)

The STATE of Nevada, Appellant, v. Satan Renee CONNERS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

February 4, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frankie Sue Del Papa, Attorney General, Carson City; Robert S. Beckett, District, Attorney, and Marla Zlotek, Deputy District Attorney, Nye County, for Appellant.

Gensler & Kuehn and Harry R. Gensler, Public Defender, Nye County, for Respondent.

Before YOUNG, AGOSTI and LEAVITT, JJ.


OPINION

PER CURIAM.

The question before us is whether a police officer conducting a Terry1 pat-down search of an individual's clothing violates an individual's Fourth Amendment rights by continuing to feel an unidentified object after ruling out that the object could be a weapon. Applying the "plain-feel" doctrine announced in Minnesota v. Dickerson, 508 U.S. 366, 113 S.Ct. 2130,...

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