Commonwealth v. Fraser

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that a pat-down search of a man in a high crime neighborhood, who bent down as if picking something up, and approached the officer with his hands in his pockets comported with the Fourth Amendment
• fmding that a pat-down search of a man in a high crime neighborhood, who bent down as if picking something up, and approached the officer with his hands in his pockets comported with the Fourth Amendment
• finding defendant’s claim under art. 14 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights waived when asserted but not developed separately in argument
• protective frisk upheld in the context of a non-seizure field interrogation where officer had come in contact with someone he considered to be dangerous
• defendant bent down as if to pick something up and refused to remove hands from pockets
• no seizure where officer’s request that defendant remove hands from pocket “was not sufficiently coercive or intimidating”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).