Commonwealth v. Fitzgibbons

How courts have described this case

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

• officer blocked suspect’s vehicle and approached suspect with gun drawn to prevent escape
• defendant conceded that police had grounds for a Terry stop where anonymous call that driver of described car had “pointed a handgun, perhaps an automatic weapon, at a group of citizens”
• police officers justified in making an investigative stop of a car matching the description and registration plate number of car reported to be occupied by a male with a handgun who allegedly had pointed the weapon at a group of people
• “the officers’ concern for their own safety is a fact that can be inferred from all the circumstances; it does not necessarily depend on direct testimony,” citing Commonwealth v. Ballou, 350 Mass. 751, 756-757 [1966], cert, denied, 385 U.S. 1031 [1967]
• defendant had pointed gun at group of people

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).