· 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
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- 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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