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Officer Kent is a 25 year veteran of the state police force. He has conducted thousands of investigations and made thousands of arrests. One day he sees a man and woman talking on a street corner. He approaches them and conducts a pat down search of each finding two marijuana joints in the man's pocket but nothing on the woman's person. He then forces the woman to empty her purse which contains a packet of cocaine. He arrests them and takes them back to the station. When asked by his superior what made him think the couple was culpable he said, "twenty-five years of experience and a feeling in my gut". Will the drugs be permitted into evidence at their trial?

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