415 So. 2d 797 - Russell v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “[C]ourts have been inclined to view the right to frisk as being `automatic' whenever the suspect has been stopped upon the suspicion that he has committed, was committing, or was about to commit a type of crime for which the offender would likely be armed, whether the weapon would be used to actually commit the crime, to escape if the scheme went awry, or for protection against the victim or others involved. This includes such suspected offenses as ... burglary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Quevedo v. State

2. “Where such a stop is reasonable, however, the right to frisk must be immediate and automatic if the reason for the stop is, as here, an articulable suspicion of a crime of violence... . [A] limited frisk incident to a lawful stop must often be rapid and routine. There is no reason why an officer, rightfully but forcibly confronting a person suspected of a serious crime, should have to ask one question and take the risk that the answer might be a bullet.”

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