Alliance Distributors, Inc. v. United States

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• concluding that the defendant’s “past association with methamphetamine,” along with other factors, contributed to the officer’s reasonable suspicion that the defendant was in possession of contraband
• concluding that the defendant’s conduct in “repeatedly touching and reaching inside his right pants pocket” contributed to reasonable suspicion, because officer’s experience corroborated that person’s in unlawful possession of drugs often engage in such “indexing” behavior
• so concluding, in totality of circumstances, with respect to the defendant’s “past association with methamphetamine”
• officer had a “decade of experience” relating to arrests for drug possession in which he observed a specific behavior known as “indexing” and had discovered drugs in the location indicated by that conduct

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).