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103454P.pdf   08/05/2011  United States  v.  Mario Smith
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  10-3454
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with Benton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges]
   Criminal case - Criminal law. Police had reasonable suspicion that
   defendant and his vehicle were connected to bank robbery and that
   suspicion justified an investigatory detention; reasonable safety
   precautions the officers exercised in approaching the vehicle did not
   convert the stop to an arrest; defendant's conduct after the stop, including
   refusal to cooperate and flight, provided probable cause for his arrest;
   defendant abandoned his vehicle when he left his car open, with the motor
   running in a public area and fled the police.