Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 11/7/1997

Commonwealth v. Vazquez

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426 Mass. 99
686 N.E.2d 993
1997 Mass. LEXIS 391

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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

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Judges: Marshall

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