State of Iowa v. Shane Michael Morris

How courts have described this case

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• holding that blocking the defendant’s car with police cruisers and approaching with guns drawn constituted a reasonable Terry stop in response to an anonymous tip concerning drug activity
• “[w]hether there has been an arrest turns on whether there has been an imposition of custody”
• police officers’ having their guns drawn but at their side and issuing orders to suspected narcotics traffickers at night to get out of vehicle for questioning did not convert investigatory stop of suspects into arrest
• \the informant must have (1) seen [the named suspect] leave with the driver and (2) known enough about the pattern of his actions to predict the time of his return and what he would be doing in the interim\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).