Battin v. B. H. W. Marine, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• rejecting defendant’s assumption “that the frisk commenced at the moment Officer Centeno ordered Appellant to stand up and turn around to prepare for the frisk”
• finding reasonable suspicion existed where an experience officer saw what he believed was a hand-to-hand narcotics transaction in a high-crime area and the suspect then fled when he saw the officer
• “It is within the suppression court’s sole province as fact finder to pass on the credibility of witnesses and the weight to be given their testimony[.]”
• “We agree with Appellant that—when Officer Centeno told Appellant to stand up and turn around so that the officer could pat Appellant down for officer safety— Officer Centeno subjected Appellant to an investigatory detention.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).