Cortes v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Pickering, J.:

During a routine traffic stop, the police developed what the district court found was a reasonable suspicion that the car’s passenger, appellant Arturo Torres Cortes, was armed and dangerous. The police ordered Cortes out of the car and subjected him to a patdown search, which produced the evidence underlying the conviction for possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) he now appeals. Under Arizona v. Johnson, 555 U.S. 323 (2009), if the finding of reasonable suspicion is sound, no Fourth Amendment violation occurred. On appeal, Cortes urges us…