Matthew As- Asma.

Yes, good afternoon.

Thank you.

Uh, I want to make a submission about how the court should understand the manpower to search incidental to a detention and the standalone safety search first described in McDonald as being two different common law powers.

Uh, and yet you should also conclude that both of them are available to police on a reasonable suspicion.

Um, they're different powers.

We knew this for three reasons.

Let me ask you, is, is there not overlap when you're talking about imminent threat of a firearm because possession of a firearm is usually or often, uh, evidence of a, of an offense?

Matthew As-Asma.

Yes.

Good afternoon.

Thank you.

Uh, I wanna make a submission about how the court should understand the manpower to search incidental to a detention and the standalone safety search first described in McDonald as being two different common law powers.

Uh, and yet you should also conclude that both of them are available to police on a reasonable suspicion.

Um, they're different powers.

-may I ask you, is, is there not overlap when you're talking about imminent threat of a firearm because possession of a firearm is usually or often, uh, evidence of a-- of an offense?