United States v. George E. Maher

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• holding that an officer had reasonable suspicion to justify detention of a suspect based on the fact the area was known for gunfire occurrences, the suspect's nervousness, and the fact he clutched his front pocket as he approached the officer
• noting that the suspect’s attempt to flee the pat-down search only increased officer’s suspicions
• finding it was not unreasonable for officer to follow suspect who fled the officer’s request to the suspect to do a pat-down search
• finding it was not unreasonable for officer to follow suspect who fled the officer's request to the suspect to do a pat-down search
• police moved a suspect from his home to his front yard in order to do a pat-down
• nervous behavior was one of the specific and articulable facts that rendered the Terry stop reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).