{"id":63433,"date":"2026-03-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63433"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:01:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:01:52","slug":"il-searching-wallet-in-terry-frisk-for-weapons-was-unreasonable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63433","title":{"rendered":"IL: Searching wallet in Terry frisk for weapons was unreasonable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even assuming the frisk was for weapons, as the officer stated on the bodycam video, the search of defendant\u2019s wallet exceeded the scope of a Terry frisk. <a href=\"https:\/\/ilcourtsaudio.blob.core.windows.net\/antilles-resources\/resources\/22e82f8d-126b-481b-9270-d8cd470b836d\/People%20v.%20Molitor%202026%20IL%20App%20(2d)%20240644.pdf\">People v. Molitor<\/a>, 2026 IL App (2d) 240644, 2026 Ill. App. LEXIS 65 (Feb. 27, 2026).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2254 petitioner didn\u2019t fairly present his Fourth Amendment claim to the state courts first, so he can\u2019t raise it here. Flynn v. Wenzel, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40796 (N.D. Ill. Feb. 27, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe opportunity to raise Fourth Amendment claims, regardless of whether it is acted upon at the state level, is all that is required to preclude federal habeas review. \u2026 Even errors in adjudicating Fourth Amendment claims are not an exception to Stone&#8217;s bar. \u2026 Here, Petitioner had the opportunity to raise his Fourth Amendment challenges in state court, which precludes these claims.\u201d Vandenabeelen v. Dir., Tex. Dep&#8217;t of Crim. Just.-Corr. Insts. Div., 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 40836 (E.D. Tex. Jan. 23, 2026),* adopted, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 38927 (E.D. Tex. Feb. 25, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even assuming the frisk was for weapons, as the officer stated on the bodycam video, the search of defendant\u2019s wallet exceeded the scope of a Terry frisk. People v. Molitor, 2026 IL App (2d) 240644, 2026 Ill. App. LEXIS 65 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63433\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63434,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63433\/revisions\/63434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}