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STATE v. HANSON

No. 22847.

34 P.3d 1 (2001)

97 Hawai`i 71

STATE of Hawai`i, Respondent/Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William HANSON, Petitioner/Defendant-Appellee.

Supreme Court of Hawai`i.

As Amended November 7, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Caroline M. Mee, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, City and County of Honolulu, for plaintiff-appellant, on the briefs.

Hayden Aluli, for defendant-appellee, on the briefs.

MOON, C.J., LEVINSON, NAKAYAMA, RAMIL, and ACOBA, JJ.

Opinion of the Court by ACOBA, J.

We hold that when an airline passenger consents to a search of his or her effects at an airport security checkpoint, the scope of the search reasonably extends to those receptacles, the contents of which cannot be identified, contained in luggage. We thus affirm the May 14, 2001 decision of the Intermediate Court of Appeals (ICA)1 reversing the August 26, 1999 order of the district court of the first circuit...

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