State v. Bitterman

How courts have described this case

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• upholding a Terry search of a person who arrived at an apartment that was being searched for narcotics
• seizure of prescription bottle, which was a hard object that, when felt through the clothes, the officer thought might be a weapon
• police were allowed to conduct a Terry frisk on individuals in the “volatile situation” where persons approached a premises being searched pursuant to a narcotics search warrant
• police were allowed to conduct a Terry frisk on individuals in the \volatile situation\ where persons approached a premises being searched pursuant to a narcotics search warrant
• seizure of prescription bottle, which was a hard object that, when felt through the clothes, the officer thought might be a weapon was justified
• because “weapons are not always of an easily discernible shape,” it is not essential the officer feel the contours of the firearm to believe it may be a weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).