State v. Cook

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 3918

Syllabus

A citizen's contemporaneous, panicked, and face-to-face tip that the driver of the vehicle positioned directly behind an officer's cruiser was waving a gun was reliable, despite the officer's failure to obtain the citizen's identifying information. This reliability and the nature of the information established a reasonable suspicion that the driver was engaged in criminal conduct justifying an investigative stop. Further, the officer's search of the vehicle's passenger compartment was an appropriate protective weapons search under Michigan v. Long, 463 U.S. 1032, 103 S.Ct. 3469, 77 L.Ed.2d 1201 (1983). Judgment affirmed.