The following excerpt is from People v. Belcher, 268 N.Y.S.2d 148, 49 Misc.2d 631 (N.Y. Cty. Ct. 1966):
'The rule allowing contemporaneous searches is justified, for example, by the need to seize weapons and other things which might be used to assault an officer or effect an escape, as well as by the need to prevent the destruction of evidence of the crime--things which might easily happen where the weapon or evidence is on the accused's person or under his immediate control.' Preston v. United States, supra at p. 367, 84 S.Ct. at p. 883.
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