People v. Creagh

How courts have described this case

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• observing that “furtive movements may be considered justification for performing a warrantless search when coupled with other circumstances tending to show probable cause”
• noting that a Terry search may not be used to gather evidence
• “looks, gestures, and movements,” alone are insufficient to establish probable cause as they may be innocuous
• the officer’s testimony “clearly established that the bulge in defendant’s right pants pocket was soft, rather than hard, and did not resemble a gun or any other weapon.”
• the fourth amendment requires that a seizure be reasonable, and the reasonableness of a seizure depends on a balancing of the public’s interest and the individual’s right to personal security free from arbitrary interference by police officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).