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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Lorello finds that the trial court properly dismissed defendant's post-conviction claim that trial counsel should have tried to suppress the heroin police found in her purse during a traffic stop. Defendant consented to a precautionary search of the purse for weapons before she could retrieve a cigarette lighter. Police were not required to articulate a suspicion that the purse contained a weapon and would not have searched it if she had waited until after the stop to smoke. Affirmed.
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