United States v. Lawrence Brown III

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• factoring into the analysis a suspect’s loud and profane behavior directed toward bystanders who were not police officers
• applying an objective- ness standard to uphold a frisk during a Terry stop when the defendant argued the officer did not subjectively fear for his safety
• finding protective pat down reasonable where, although there were no specific facts indicating that the suspect was armed, there was ample reason to view the uncooperative and volatile suspect, as dangerous, so officer acted reasonably in conducting pat down
• “[W]e look to the record as a whole to determine what facts were known to the officer and then consider whether a reasonable officer in those circumstances would have been suspicious.” (internal 20 quotation marks and citation omitted)
• individual “acting erratically and somewhat aggressively throughout the late afternoon to early evening period” by running over a fence with his vehicle roused officer’s concern for his own safety and thus justified the officer’s pat-down search, despite no specific -10- suspicion of a weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).