United States v. Manuel Melendez-Garcia

How courts have described this case

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• acknowledging reality that \[d]rugs and guns and violence often go together\ but holding that \the naked fact that drugs are suspected will not support a per sejustification for use of . . . handcuffs in a Terry stop\
• handcuffing a “far greater level of intrusion” than frisking for weapons
• “[T]he naked fact that drugs are suspected will not support a per se justification for use of guns and handcuffs in a Terry stop.”
• “In the absence of [evidence that the particular suspects are armed or violent, or that the situation in particularly dangerous], the naked fact that drugs are suspected will not support a per se justification for use of guns or handcuffs in a Terry stop.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).