United States v. Kareen Rasul Griffin

How courts have described this case

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• holding that police officer’s questions regarding what suspect had in his pocket was unrelated to the purpose of the initial detention, which concerned attempted theft and a frisk for weapons
• taking into account that an officer “had not finished investigating the alleged attempted theft”
• taking into account that an officer \had not finished investigating the alleged attempted theft\
• providing we evaluate the totality of the circumstances to determine whether reasonable suspicion existed
• “Once an officer has stopped an individual, he may conduct a pat-down or frisk for weapons if he reasonably believes that his safety, or the safety of others, is threatened.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).