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193199P.pdf 12/17/2020 United States v. Clarence Brooks
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 19-3199
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - Kansas City
[PUBLISHED] [Melloy, Author, with Colloton and Kelly, Circuit Judges]
Criminal case - Criminal law. The search of defendant's person was
reasonable as officers knew, at the time they ordered him to the ground
and patted him down, that he had been riding in a stolen vehicle with a
driver who had failed to comply with officers' directions following a
traffic stop; the officers possessed a reasonable suspicion that
defendant's possible involvement with the stolen vehicle made him guilty
of tampering or car theft, and they were permitted, under Terry, to pat
him down for weapons, and the gun and drugs found during the pat-down were
admissible.