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123247P.pdf 04/04/2014 United States v. Tyrone Harris
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 12-3247
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Shepherd, Author, with Riley, Chief Judge, and Wollman,
Circuit Judge]
Criminal case - Criminal law. Officers called to a bus station upon a
report that a man sleeping in the station had a gun falling out of his
pants were acting within their community caretaker capacity, and their
action in seizing the weapon from defendant while he was asleep was
justified by the risks the exposed and unguarded weapon posed; officers'
decision to handcuff defendant until they could safely awaken him and
obtain information was reasonable.