United States v. Ginger A. Miller, United States of America v. Toni A. Hampton, United States of America v. Jay L. Nash

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• concluding that cuffing of suspects during Terry stop where suspects outnumbered officers and where officers -4- were concerned for safety was reasonably necessary to achieve purposes of Terry stop
• holding officer’s decision to handcuff two of six suspects during an investigatory stop because officers were outnumbered was reasonable
• considering the “nature of the crime” and whether “the suspect[] might be armed” (footnote and citation omitted)
• “[t]he nature of the crime [the officer] suspected, drug trafficking, created a wholly credible concern that at least some of the suspects might be armed.”
• “Numerous cases have held that a police officer’s use of handcuffs can be a reasonable precaution during a Terry stop.”
• \Numerous cases have held that a police officer's use of handcuffs can be a reasonable precaution during a Terry stop.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).