Legal Opinion
United States v. Horace Marion Swann, III
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 14, 1998No. 97-4462PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Affirmed by published opinion. Judge MURNAGHAN wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILKINS and Judge HAMILTON joined.
OPINION
MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:
In investigating a quite recent theft, a police officer stopped and frisked two suspects. In the sock of one, Horace Swann, III, the officer felt something hard and unusual. He did not testify that he believed it to be a weapon or that he knew it was not a weapon; rather he stated only that he did not know what it was. The officer removed the unusual object from Swann’s sock and it turned out to be a group of credit cards which had been stolen in…
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