630 So. 2d 302 - State v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “Additionally a limited frisk or pat-down weapons search incident to an investigatory stop may be conducted in order to prevent harm to the police officers and ensure their safety. The circumstances under which an officer may make such a pat-down for weapons must be based on whether or not a reasonably prudent man would be warranted in the belief that his safety or that of others was in danger. Such belief is not reasonable unless the officer is able to point to particular facts from which he reasonably inferred that the individual was armed and dangerous. It is not necessary that the investigating officer establish that it was more probable than not that the detained individual was armed and dangerous; it is sufficient that he establish a substantial possibility of danger. (Citations omitted)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 668 So. 2d 1240 - State v. Short

2. “[g]iven the knowledge obtained by Officer Smith that the defendant was a convicted murderer, we find that a pat down search was justified.”

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