976 F.3d 972

Cates v. Stroud

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Fri, 10/21/2022 - 09:34

Even with reasonable suspicion that visitor was attempting to bring drugs into prison, investigator violated her Fourth Amendment rights by strip searching her without giving her option of leaving prison rather than being subjected to search, but case law did not clearly establish right to have option to leave and thus officer was entitled to qualified immunity; temporary detention of prison visitor for a few minutes while investigators searched her car did not violate Fourth Amendment.