106 Md. App. 665 - Smith v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “I approached him from the front for my safety. I asked, him to place his hands up where I could see them. At that time I detained him.... At that time I did a pat—a stop and frisk pat down for my safety in the back of his waist area where I had seen him place an object. At that time I pulled, out his shirt to check under it at which time the object fell to the ground.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Smith

2. “[W]hat was the purpose of the technique where you sort of tugged at the shirt of the waistband which caused something to fall out? Is that a specific kind of technique that you learned in the academy or something?””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Smith