United States v. William Buffington, Ceariaco Cabrellis, and Booker T. Cook, Defendants

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• holding that the fact that the police stopped the defendants’ ear, ordered defendants out of the car* at gunpoint, and forced them to lie face down on the pavement did not turn the stop into an arrest
• finding that speculation of selective prosecution, without additional proof, insufficient to establish selective prosecution
• forcing defendant from car and making him lie down on wet pavement at gunpoint permissible during stop where defendant had a violent criminal history
• requiring, in the Ninth Circuit, a “step toward commission of the crime . . . of such substantiality that, unless frustrated, the crime would have occurred”
• ordering defendant to leave car and to lie down at gunpoint
• requiring “conduct constituting a substantial step toward commission of the crime”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).