United States v. Juan Carlos Ocampo and Luis Alfonso Escobar

How courts have described this case

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• holding that although insufficient by itself, “[t]he information supplied by [an] informant [i]s just one factor among many” to consider when determining whether officers had “a reasonable and articulable suspicion”
• considering the suspect's demeanor and behavior as part of a Terry -stop analysis
• considering the suspect’s demeanor and behavior as part of a Terry-stop analysis
• Terry stop where officers had guns drawn was justified where it is “beyond dispute that drug traffickers are often armed and dangerous”
• “ ‘circumstances before [the officer] are not to be dissected and viewed singly; rather, they must be considered as a whole.’ ”
• “A Terry investigatory stop is a brief detention which gives officers a chance to verify (or dispel) well-founded suspicions that a person has been, is, or is about to be engaged in criminal activity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).