United States v. Terry King and Valerie Jean Burdex

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• holding that the presence of a firearm, without evidence of illegality or other criminal conduct, does not alone establish reasonable suspicion
• holding that officer at accident scene was justified in approaching defendants’ car and could have briefly detained defendants to inform driver of hazardous conditions and advise him to cease honking his horn
• stating that a detention must be justified at its inception and as it proceeds
• finding that drugs defendant attempted to discard during illegal arrest were illegal fruits
• holding Fourth Amendment permitted officer at the scene of a motor vehicle accident to order driver out of car and to temporarily seize his firearm in order to ensure her own safety, even if driver lawfully possessed firearm
• defendant's voluntary confession inadmissible where given during illegal detention and no intervening circumstances to dissipate taint

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).