People v. Requejo

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that officer’s simple question directed towards locating a weapon was legitimately asked for officer safety reasons
• concluding that officer's simple question directed towards locating a weapon was legitimately asked for officer safety reasons
• concluding that “mental slowness” didn’t meet the definition of “mental disease or defect” because it wasn’t “severely abnormal” and didn’t “grossly and demonstrably impair [the] ‘perception’ of reality”
• holding that an officer’s question about the location of a knife fell within the exception because it was justified to “protect the safety of officers engaged in immediate, on-scene investigation of a crime”
• applying exception “to protect the safety of officers engaged in immediate, on-scene investigation of a crime”
• error not harmless if it affects the outcome of the trial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).