United States v. McKoy

How courts have described this case

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• holding that nervousness during a traffic stop did not permit a finding of reasonable suspicion necessary to conduct a “frisk” of the defendant
• noting that the officer must have a separate particularized, objective basis for “believing that the person is armed and dangerous to the officer or others” to support a protective frisk
• “It is insufficient that the stop itself is valid; there must be a separate analysis of whether the standard for pat-frisks has been met.”
• a traffic violation in a high crime area and a nervous driver insufficient to justify a pat-frisk
• “Nervousness is a common and entirely natural reaction to police presence . . .”
• \Nervousness is a common and entirely natural reaction to police presence ...\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).