United States Eleventh Circuit

Jail policy which does not require any reasonable suspicion to conduct a strip search violates the Fourth Amendment, but a detainee's possession of a weapon provides the "reasonable suspicion" necessary to authorize one.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/28/2000
• Published 12/28/2000

Judges

• VINING, District Judge:, Before TJOFLAT and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and VINING, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jeffrey William Bennitt,Robyn Graham Bufford, Bennitt & Bufford, Birmingham, AL, for Skurstenis., Frank C. Ellis, Jr., Wallace, Ellis, Fowler & Head, Columbiana, AL, K. Claire White, Ferguson, Frost & Dobson, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Jones, Watts, Shelby County Baptist Hosp., Smitherman and Blankenship., Dorothy A. Powell, Mark W. Lee, Parsons, Lee & Juliano, P.C., Birmingham, AL, for Richey.