United States v. Anthony Jacob (03-3348) Ramon Gallardo (03-3351)

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it was reasonable for officers to draw their weapons to prevent an escape when the suspects’ vehicle “lunged forward as if they were attempting to escape”
• any error was harmless where district court repeatedly instructed that the transcript was not evidence and a substantial portion of the tape was not inaudible
• “[O]fficers who stop a person who is reasonably suspected of carrying drugs are entitled to rely on their experience and training in concluding that weapons are frequently used in drug transactions, and to take reasonable measures to protect themselves.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).