United States v. Ronald T. Clipper

How courts have described this case

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• officer responding to gun tip may consider hazards of firearms in balancing suspect’s interests against need to protect officers and others from violence
• where police have anonymous tip, suspected gun crimes may be treated differently from suspected drug offenses because the former are more likely to involve immediate danger to others
• though officer was justified in placing his hand into suspect's pocket to investigate \large lump\ that he reasonably believed could have been a gun, he was not justified in removing that object, because he realized, while his hand was still in the pocket, that it was actually not a gun

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