United States v. Spinner, Richard

How courts have described this case

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• holding that nervousness and “fiddling with the center console” are not sufficient facts from which the officers could conclude that the defendant was armed and dangerous
• finding it significant that before police searched Spinner’s vehicle they “had already determined Spinner did not have anything dangerous on his person when they frisked him — with his consent”
• assuming without deciding that the defendant’s parking violation justified his initial detention
• acknowledging federal circuits “have found no legally meaningful distinction between a parking and a moving violation” for Terry stop purposes, but finding it unnecessary to address the issue
• “A search not justified when it is begun cannot be used to elicit evidence with which to justify the search after the fact.” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).