State v. Starkweather

How courts have described this case

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• noting that an arrestee who seemed “nervous and excited from the moment he was stopped” gave rise to a reasonable officer-safety concern
• reasonable concern for safety arose where defendant exhibited nervous and erratic behavior, appeared to be concealing something from officers and covertly moved hand under jacket that was in passenger seat
• When the defendant was asked to reveal the object under his coat that he had glanced toward and reached for, the defendant responded, “Don’t make me do that, officer.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).