Commonwealth v. Wascom

How courts have described this case

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

• holding frisk was lawful when \the officer noticed what appeared to be a knife protruding from the [defendant's] coat pocket\
• police justified in frisking man walking downtown at 12:35 a.m. with tagged clothing and television set with bulge in pocket consistent with knife
• officer acted reasonably in stopping two men carrying unwrapped merchandise in a deserted business area at 12:30 a.m.
• observation of an object in a suspect’s pocket indicating possi bility of a weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).