State v. Coleman

Sievers, Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether a warning from a dispatcher to a police officer making a traffic stop that the driver is “a 2CX,” which the officer testified means a “convicted felon that should be considered extremely dangerous,” justifies a pat-down search of the suspect. See Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S. Ct. 1868, 20 L. Ed. 2d 889 (1968). The pat down turned up illegal drugs, and in the course of the pat down, the driver bit the officer several times. We hold that such “2CX” designation, standing alone, does not furnish a reasonable suspicion that the driver is armed…