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Johnson v. State

Citations

  • 785 So. 2d 1224
  • 2001 WL 543215

How courts have described this case

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

  • stating that \a [weapons] pat down is authorized when ... the officer has probable cause to believe that the person stopped is armed with a dangerous weapon\
  • stating that “a pat down is authorized when ... the officer has probable cause to believe that the person stopped is armed with a dangerous weapon”
  • acknowledging the “analytical difficulty” in distinguishing a citizen encounter from an investigatory stop
  • an officer can conduct a pat down as part of a consensual encounter, for which there is no reasonable suspicion to justify a Terry 1 stop, if facts arise during the encounter that give the officer reasonable suspicion that the citizen is armed and dangerous
  • defendant “acting very nervous” and “looking around constantly”

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Judges: Gross

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