Opinion · Supreme Court of the United States
Thompson v. Woods
461 U.S. 907
- Type
- Opinion
- Court
- Supreme Court of the United States
- Jurisdiction
- Federal
- Date
- 1983-04-25
- Topic
- general
How later courts describe this case
- upholding opposite-sex pat searches by female guards that includes a search of both the genital and buttock areas
- “any restriction upon a defendant’s access to his counsel during a recess, whether the recess be extended or brief, is constitutionally impermissible.”
- all of which recognize that even a male prison inmate has a right of privacy against a frisk of the genital area by a female guard.
Citator
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- Cited by
- 43 opinions
C. A. 6th Cir. Certiorari denied.