United States v. Kenneth H. Nash

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• the combined facts of the driver's furtive gesture and the presence of a jacket covering the area where driver made the gesture justified the protective search
• a defendant who “appeared to raise himself up from the car seat and beg[i]n reaching towards the floor” after seeing a police car behind him had made a “furtive gesture” justifying a search of his car
• “The jacket covered the area in which [the defendant] appeared to have hidden something when he made the ‘furtive gesture’. These two facts, the furtive gesture and the position of the jacket, warranted [the police officer’s] belief that a search was necessary for his safety.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).