167 Ind. App. 185 - Collett v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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34 state decisions

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1. “When the investigatory stop itself is based on information supplied by another person, rather than on the officer's personal observation, the information must carry some indicia of reliability to justify the initial stop. However, when an officer has made a reasonable investigatory stop and realizes that he has information that the individual carries a gun, the officer has a right to neutralize the threat of physical harm to himself and others during the investigative stop by patting the individual down for weapons—regardless of whether his information that the individual carries a gun has been verified or came from a "reliable" informant.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 33 Wash. App. 692 - State v. Holbrook

2. ““The officer need not be absolutely certain that the individual is armed; the issue is whether a reasonably prudent man in the circumstances would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger.... And in determining whether the officer acted reasonably in such circumstances, due weight must be given, not to his inchoate and unparticularized suspicion or ‘hunch,’ but to the specific reasonable inferences which he is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his experience.” (Citations omitted.) 167 Ind.App. at 193 , 338 N.E.2d at 291 .”

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