What showing must be made before drugs or other evidence can be seized under the plain feel exception?
A. The incriminating nature of the item must be “immediately apparent” to the officer. In Dickerson, the officer felt a “small, hard object wrapped in plastic” and, after “squeezing, sliding and otherwise manipulating the contents of the defendant’s pocket,” the officer determined the lump was crack. The search was held invalid because continued exploration of the pocket after determining there was no weapon there was unrelated to the sole justification of the Terry search.508 U.S. at 378.
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