People v. Smithers

How courts have described this case

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

• evaluating officers' actions in light of their failure to act—had they not conducted the stop and frisk for weapons, someone could have been killed or seriously injured
• evaluating officers’ actions in light of their failure to act — had they not conducted the stop and frisk for weapons, someone could have been killed or seriously injured
• “The fact that the officers had information that the complaint they were investigating involved a man with a gun casts a heavy weight in favor of the reasonableness of the search. . . . We should evaluate the officers’ actions in light of one’s reaction had they failed to act.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).