Tenth Circuit· 10/31/2007

United States v. Copening

Citations

506 F.3d 1241
2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 25485
2007 WL 3173961

How courts have described this case

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

finding that an anonymous tip from an unknown caller in an unknown location gave rise to reasonable suspicion that a suspect possessed a firearm
noting that “the caller told dispatch he saw the . . . weapons incident”
finding officers’ use of “felony takedown” procedure reasonable in light of their belief that “a loaded gun—by any measure an inherently dangerous weapon—was in the [vehicle’s] passenger compartment”
emphasizing the fact that an officer corroborated the informant’s report before initiating a stop
stating “an ordinary citizen acting in good faith” in calling 911 indicates reliability
characterizing a “loaded gun [as] by any measure an inherently dangerous weapon”

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Judges: Lucero, Baldock, Gorsuch

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