United States v. Copening

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”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).