United States v. Mark Anthony Miles

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that an officer exceeded the permissible limits of a protective search by manipulating a box that “was no bigger than a large package of chewing gum and was one-half the size of a package of cigarettes”
• finding detention reasonable where two officers, with guns drawn, detained a suspect matching a description of a gunman and handcuffed him
• courts “allow 22 intrusive and aggressive police conduct without deeming it an arrest … when it is a 23 reasonable response to legitimate safety concerns.”
• “[I]f an officer feels an item that he recognizes as contraband or evidence , that touch may provide probable cause for the arrest of the person and seizure of the evidence .” (emphasis added)
• “[I]f an officer feels an item that he recognizes as contraband or evidence, that touch may provide probable cause for the arrest of the person and seizure of the evidence.” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).