CORDY, J.
This case presents the question whether, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights, a public school administrator may search a student premised solely on that student's violation of a school rule unrelated to the possession of contraband or the threat of violence. We hold that, in the circumstances of this case, the search of the student was unreasonable and therefore barred...
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