Legal Opinion
United States v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 30, 2019No. Criminal Action No. 18-193 (RDM)PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RANDOLPH D. MOSS, United States District Judge
Defendant Clifton Smith's motion to suppress physical evidence raises an unsettled issue of Fourth Amendment law: Whether the smell of phencyclidine ("PCP"), alone, justifies the use of handcuffs during a Terry stop. Dkt. 8. The relevant events in this case occurred on March 30, 2018, at approximately 5:24 p.m., when two Metropolitan Police Department ("MPD") officers were patrolling the 1000 block of 14th Street, S.E. The officers observed Defendant standing next to the open driver's-side door of a parked car with tinted windows. At the time, no…
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