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· 9/12/1983

United States v. Peggy Ann Jacobs

Citations

  • 715 F.2d 1343
  • 1983 U.S. App. LEXIS 24083

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that it was reasonable shortly after a bank robbery for single officer to order two suspects out of the ear at gunpoint and to “prone out”
  • suspects closely match radio description of “possibly armed” group that had robbed a bank twenty minutes earlier
  • “[T]he use of force in making a stop will not convert the stop into an arrest ‘if it occurs under circumstances justifying fears for personal safety.’ ”

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Judges: Browning, Choy, Ferguson, Per Curiam

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