United States v. Norman Delano Moore

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the stop was justified because the police officer responded to the building alarm immediately, the defendant was the only person in the area, and it was nighttime
• noting that “the drawing of weapons will sometimes be a reasonable precaution for the protection of officers and bystanders”
• concluding that there was reasonable suspicion for a Terry stop where (1) a police officer responded quickly to a silent burglar alarm in a high-crime area at night, (2) the officer saw only the defendant in the area, (3
• noting that the defendant's presence in a high crime area may be relevant to reasonable suspicion
• finding that suspect being found, at night, in the vicinity of the crime minutes after its commission with the suspect being the only person in area without any physical/racial description of suspect was sufficient to provide reasonable suspicion
• finding relevant that “[t]he call came late at night, and [that] appellant was the only person in the vicinity”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).