United States v. Stephen R. Gibson, A/K/A Keith Miller

How courts have described this case

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• upholding suppression of evidence where officer could only identify lump as “a hard, flat angular object”
• requiring suppression when the government did not adequately explain “how a hard, flat, angular object in someone’s pocket would lead a law enforcement officer of reasonable caution to believe an offense had been or is being committed”
• \flat hard object\ containing cocaine was seized because it did not correspond with anything officer expected to find in pants pocket; seizure held improper
• despite suspicious circumstances, seizure of “flat hard object” containing cocaine held improper — officer related nothing from his experience to correlate objects of this sort with criminal activity
• trial court made no findings; officer simply found a hard, flat, angular object which did not correspond to anything expected in a pocket, but which he knew was not a weapon

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).