Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law 9th Edition by Arnold Goldman ,William Sigismond

Exercise 16

Police officer Ron Schmurtz pulled a car over to the side of the road for making an illegal U-turn. When he approached the car, he discovered five teenage boys. The officer looked the vehicle over but had no reason to be suspicious about any criminal activity taking place in or around the vehicle. However, because the driver and his passengers were teenagers, he felt that they used drugs. Consequently, he ordered them all out of the car, searched the car's interior, and discovered some illegal drugs. Schmurtz then placed all the teenagers under arrest. Was the search that Schmurtz conducted legal?