United States v. Oliver R. Bennett

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that an officer could not have reasonably anticipated the defendant's response since nothing indicated that the officer wanted, expected, or demanded the defendant to respond
• “[The officer’s] remark was a natural exclamation in response to what he saw with no emotive undertones which could be expected to elicit a response.”
• “[W]e believe it clear that those words and actions, which are necessary or appropriate to inform fellow officers of a potential threat to their own safety and that of others during the -22- course of an arrest or custody, are ‘normally attendant.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).