United States v. Hewey Lee Thompson

How courts have described this case

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• holding that pocket search was “justified” because of the officer’s “inability to determine from a pat-down whether the pocket of the bulky coat contained a weapon”
• finding that handcuffing suspect during Terry stop was not unreasonable because the suspect “repeatedly attempted to reach for his inside coat pocket, despite the officers’ repeated warnings not to.”
• handcuffs did not convert stop into arrest and were reasonably necessary when suspect reached for his pocket after being warned not to do so

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).