Pick Up Your Jacket

I'm researching a 4th Amendment issue and ran across this gem:

[While searching a room for a rifle], an officer picked up Grant's jacket and noticed it was unusually heavy and contained a large bulge in one pocket. Fearing it was the weapon, the officer unzipped the pocket and discovered the crack cocaine Brown intended to sell. In an effort to determine the owner of the jacket, the officer told the couple to get their personal belongings out of the room. In picking up their stuff, Brown told Grant numerous times to get her jacket from the officer. She denied it was her jacket, and the couple left the room leaving the jacket with the officer. The officer arrested the couple for possession of the crack cocaine.

State v. Grant, 614 N.W.2d 848 (Iowa App. 04/28/2000).



Because, as we all know, crack cocaine in plastic baggies feels exactly like a rifle.