United States v. Jose Antonio Casado

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a pat down search was less intrusive than reaching into the detainee’s pocket to remove an item
• “We do not exclude the possibility that in some circumstances a patdown is not required.”
• where “[t]he less intrusive alternative of a frisk was obvious, commonly employed, and would have been effective” to ensure officer safety, a pocket search was unreasonable
• “[W]e agree with the general principle that a patdown is not the only type of search authorized by Terry, and that there are circumstances in which a patdown is not required.”
• officer's search was properly limited in scope where he \patted down the outer clothing of [the suspects]” and \did not place his hands in their pockets or under the outer surface of their garments until he had felt weapons”
• finding \[defendant] was seized when [the officer] grabbed his hand\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).