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· 4/26/2004

United States v. Alvin Brown

Citations

  • 366 F.3d 456
  • 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 8148
  • 2004 WL 877573

How courts have described this case

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

  • observing that “[c]ertainly a bank robbery is the type of violent criminal activity from which officers reasonably could infer that a suspect might be armed”
  • also noting that \several circuits have held that such statements are so presumptively reliable that they may support a probable cause determination even if uncorroborated.\
  • proximity in time of a stop to a report of alleged suspicious activity found to be a valid component of a reasonable suspicion determination
  • “Certainly a bank robbery is the type of violent criminal activity from which officers reasonably could infer that the suspect might be armed”
  • “[A]n officer may check an individ- ual’s identification in his wallet during a Terry stop.”
  • also noting that “several circuits have held that such statements are so presumptively reliable that they may support a probable cause determination even if uncorrobo‐ rated.”

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Judges: Cudahy, Ripple, Wood

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