United States v. Alfred Garcia-Rivera

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it was lawful to frisk a driver who leaned forward “as if reaching for something or putting something down,” failed to produce vehicle documentation, and said he had been convicted of armed robbery
• approving pat-down when “[i]nability to provide proof of registration gives rise to suspicion of a stolen vehicle”
• reversing conviction because the district court’s jury instructions were ambiguous and the court’s failure to poll the jurors to see whether they were confused resulted in a “questionable verdict”
• “In reviewing jury instructions, the relevant inquiry is whether the instructions as a whole are misleading or inadequate to guide the jury’s deliberation.”
• district court correctly denied suppression motion where officer expanded the scope of a traffic stop to a pat-down search given the driver’s furtive movement and failure to provide any valid documentation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).