United States v. Larue H. Purry

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• holding that handcuffing a suspect in a completed robbery was “an appropriate method of maintaining the status quo” during an investigatory detention
• holding that an officer can grab the defendant’s arm and then handcuff the defendant in order “to maintain the status quo momentarily while obtaining more information”
• concluding that an officer's decision to handcuff defendant as part of an investigatory detention was justified because, when contacted within the area of an armed robbery minutes after the robbery occurred, defendant attempted to pull away from the officer
• concluding that an officer’s decision to handcuff defendant as part of an investigatory detention was justified because, when contacted within the area of an armed robbery minutes after the robbery occurred, defendant attempted to pull away from the officer
• explaining that an officer may conduct a Terry stop by physically restraining a defendant momentarily to “obtain[] more information”
• handcuffing of suspect 22 permissible because the suspect “turned and pulled away” when the police officer placed an arm on him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).