United States v. Dennis G. Stanley

How courts have described this case

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• “The Fourth Amendment, of course, does not prevent police from engaging in investigatory activities, including observations of individuals that stop short of a search or seizure.”
• Terry stops \must be justified by reasonable suspicion proportional to the degree of intrusion\
• “Without implicating the protections of the Fourth Amendment, Officers Souza and Delaney could patrol the parking lot, observe the defendant’s behavior from inside or outside their cruiser, and leave their cruiser to approach [him].”
• fact that defendant was alone in car late after midnight in area frequently used for illegal drug activities, was leaning over the vehicle’s illuminated center console, and appeared to try to hide something when he saw officer sufficient to warrant the person’s detention
• fact that defendant was alone in car late after midnight in area frequently used for illegal drug activities, was leaning over the vehicle's illuminated center console, and appeared to try to hide something when he saw officer sufficient to warrant the person's detention
• Terry stop reasonable where, just past midnight, defendant was sitting alone in his car in a high-crime area; appeared to be engaged in some purposeful though undefined drug-related activity; and appeared to hide something under his seat when he saw the officers approach

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).