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041789P.pdf 01/25/2005 United States v. Daniel Dale Hanlon
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 04-1789
District of Minnesota
Criminal case - criminal law. Under the totality of the circumstances,
officer had sufficient grounds to expand his investigation beyond the
initial traffic stop; officer had a reasonable, articulable suspicion that
defendant might be armed and was justified in subjecting defendant to a
pat-down search; seizure of vial of methamphetamine did not exceed the
allowable scope of the pat-down search.
[PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Heaney and Fagg, Circuit Judges]