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Virginia ruling on a "Terry" stop
Commonwealth v. Smith. In a split decision, a majority upholds a frisk based on a traffic stop where police knew that the driver had fairly recently been arrested for drug distribution and for felon-in-possession, but did not observe signs that he was then armed.
Hat tip to reader Dennis Hannick...
Comments
"[A]nd dangerous" is going to be a very important concept - otherwise even all law abiding carry permit holders are going to be frisked at every stop...
-Gene
Posted by: Gene Hoffman at May 1, 2011 12:22 PM
You can go thru your felony stops and your terry stops and you can always be (should be) on the alert all the time but,unfortunately, the one that gets you is the one you didn't expect...
Posted by: Ceefour at May 2, 2011 10:51 AM