United States v. Joseph Harley

How courts have described this case

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• holding officer not “precluded from displaying a weapon unless he has probable cause to make an arrest” and that “[i]t would be a sad day for law enforcement officers if a per se rule to the contrary were now adopted”
• “We would be heartless if we did not share the officers’ concern for their own safety.... [W]e cannot impose on law enforcement personnel the hobson’s choice of keeping their guns holstered when to do so ‘increases the risk that they will be shot.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).