Granados v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “Once the five-dollar bill fell to the ground, [Officer] Cassel could have simply covered the bill with his shoe or kicked it out of reach and completed his patdown search of Granados without fear of being injured by any weapons it might have contained. See Berry , 704 N.E.2d at 465 ("As commentators have noted, police officers can often protect themselves from any risk that the item might contain a weapon by simply putting it out of the person's reach."). By unfolding the bill to look for "weapons or anything," [Officer] Cassel broadened the scope of the Terry search beyond its protective purpose. See Johnson [v. State], 710 N.E.2d [925] at 928 [ (Ind. App. 1999) ] ; see also Terry , 392 U.S. at 25 -26 , 88 S.Ct. 1868 ("A search for weapons in the absence of probable cause to arrest, however, must, like any other search, be strictly circumscribed by the exigencies which justify its initiation."); Ybarra v. Illinois , 444 U.S. 85 , 93-94, 100 S.Ct. 338 , 62 L.Ed.2d 238 (1979) ("Nothing in Terry can be understood to allow a generalized 'cursory search for weapons' or indeed, any search whatever for anything but weapons.").”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jarvis Peele v. State of Indiana

2. “We believe that the reasonable suspicion which gives authority to a Terry stop does not, without more, authorize the examination of the contents of items carried by the suspicious person. But where either the suspicion that criminal activity may be afoot or a concern over the possibility of harm is reasonably heightened during the stop, the police are authorized to search such items within the suspicious person's immediate control.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Jarvis Peele v. State of Indiana

3. “If a police officer has a reasonable fear of danger when making a Terry stop, he may conduct a carefully limited search of the suspect's outer clothing in an attempt to discover weapons that might be used to assault him.”

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