United States v. Tyrone Harris

How courts have described this case

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• holding that community caretaker doctrine applied when officers responded to a call that a gun was sliding out of the pocket of a sleeping individual at a bus station
• holding that community caretaker doctrine applied when officers responded to a call that a gun was sliding out of the pocket of a sleeping individual at a bus station
• maintaining that the scope of the encounter must conform to the purpose of the initial detention
• recognizing police may be called to “make a split-second decision in the face of an emergency” to protect the public
• noting that “officers’ decision to handcuff” a defendant “was reasonable considering the circumstances confronting” them (cleaned up)
• maintaining that the scope of the encounter must conform to the purpose of the initial detention

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).