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· 1/11/1974

United States v. James Edward Strickler

Citations

  • 490 F.2d 378
  • 1974 U.S. App. LEXIS 10623

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that an 5 investigatory stop became an arrest at the moment of “an armed approach to a surrounded vehicle whose occupants have been commanded to raise their hands”
  • holding investigatory stop exceed its permissible scope where officers surrounded 18 vehicle and pointed firearm at occupants
  • encircling a suspect’s car with policeman and ordering him out at gunpoint held an arrest
  • encircling a suspect's car with policeman and ordering him out at gunpoint held an arrest
  • mere proximity to a residence where cocaine was being delivered and participation in some ambiguous driving and observing activity
  • mere proximity to a residence where cocaine was being delivered and participation in some ambiguous driving and observing activity

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Judges: Hufstedler, Goodwin, Thompson

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