Barahona v. Marcus

How courts have described this case

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• several individuals on a public street approached a police officer, independently informed him that a man brandishing a gun had been chasing another man down the street, and pointed out the alleged assailant to the officer
• police were authorized, for their safely and that of others, to order occupants from car and conduct limited search for weapon in car, where they reasonably inferred that suspect had handed weapon to passenger
• reliable identification of defendant by multiple bystander eyewitnesses as the man who had just committed an armed assault on another justified a stop and frisk of defendant as he stood next to an automobile on the passenger’s side
• reasonable suspicion established where unidentified bystanders pointed to the defendant
• reasonable suspicion established where bystanders pointed to defendant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).