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Pace v. State

Citations

  • 466 S.E.2d 254
  • 219 Ga. App. 583
  • 96 Fulton County D. Rep. 128
  • 1995 Ga. App. LEXIS 1103

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  • nervous behavior, ignoring police and walking away from them after called to, repeated attempts to reach inside pockets
  • officer authorized to reach into pocket of defendant when defendant tried to reach into his pocket several times and officer reasonably believed defendant was reaching for a weapon
  • a tier one encounter involves communication between police and citizens involving no coercion or detention and therefore without the compass of the Fourth Amendment
  • threatening action justifies safety search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Beasley, McMurray, Birdsong, Pope, Andrews, Johnson, Blackburn, Smith, Ruffin

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