Peay v. United States

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

This case involves an encounter between a lone police officer and the appellant, clutching in his hand something that “could possibly have been a weapon, a small knife, possibly a gun,” on the third floor of an apartment building known for narcotics trafficking. We affirm the trial court’s ruling that the officer’s stop of the appellant for further investigation was reasonable within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.

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Fourteen twenty-nine Girard St., N.W., Washington, D.C., was an apartment building which the police would routinely enter and check for the illegal…