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· 2/3/1978

United States v. Tyrone Vincent Short

Citations

  • 570 F.2d 1051
  • 187 U.S. App. D.C. 142
  • 1978 U.S. App. LEXIS 12780

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that “what the officer carried on was the kind of full search that depends on the justification of an arrest”
  • probable cause requirement \meant to minimize the possibility of subjecting innocent people to the harassment and embarrassment of involuntary detention\
  • probable cause requirement “meant to minimize the possibility of subjecting innocent people to the harassment and embarrassment of involuntary detention”
  • no probable cause since lookout description could fit many young people in the area and victim could not identify appellant; however, sufficient articulable suspicion for stop under Terry
  • no probable cause since lookout description could fit many young people in the area and victim could not identify appellant; however, sufficient articulable suspicion for stop under Terry

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: McGowan, Leventhal, Robb

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