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State v. Peterson

Citations

  • 923 P.2d 1340
  • 143 Or. App. 505
  • 1996 Ore. App. LEXIS 1395

How courts have described this case

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

  • exit order to driver unreasonable where “there was nothing in defendant’s behavior to suggest imminent aggressiveness or hostility toward [the officer]”
  • defendant’s nervousness and a jacket lying on the passenger seat did not justify officer safety search, because no weapons were visible and defendant cooperated with officer without making furtive movements toward jacket
  • questions about weapons at a traffic stop expanded scope of traffic stop
  • defendant’s eyes “‘darting around’” not objective evidence of officer-safety threat

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Riggs, Landau, Leeson

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