United States v. Aida Serna-Barreto

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officers’ drawing guns did not automatically escalate investigatory stop into an arrest where officers’ safety required such a measure
• holding that it was not unreasonable for a lone officer stopping a suspected narcotics trafficker in a vehicle at night to point a gun at the driver
• holding that an officer was justified in drawing his weapon as part of a nighttime Terry stop of possibly armed suspects who “were seated in a car” and thus not in “full view” of the officer
• officers’ drawing guns did not automatically escalate investigatory stop into an arrest where officers’ safety required such a measure
• officers’ drawing of guns did not automatically escalate investigatory stop into an arrest where officers’ safety required such a measure
• “It would be a sad day for the people of the United States if police had carte blanche to point a gun at each and every person of whom they had an ‘articulable suspicion’ of engaging in criminal activity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).