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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]