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Task: Frisk of Persons in Commercial Establishment

Ybarra v. Illinois, 444 U.S. 85 (1979).

An officer may not frisk patrons of a commercial establishment

where officers are executing a search warrant unless the officers

have individualized reasonable suspicion to believe that the person

to be frisked is armed and poses a danger to officers.

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