United States v. Fager

BALDOCK, Circuit Judge.

Defendant Brian Ford Fager appeals the denial of his Motion to Suppress a firearm police officers discovered on his person during a roadside frisk. We must decide whether the officers’ concerns for their own safety gave them the requisite reasonable suspicion to frisk Defendant. We hold that these concerns sufficiently justified the frisk under the totality of the circumstances and affirm.

I

On February 10, 2014, Deputy Justin Dobler of the Topeka Police Department stopped Defendant’s car around 8:00 p.m. for a turn signal violation near an apartment complex in a…