United States v. Paul Johnson, Jr.

I agree that, in the "circumstances" that he confronted, the Fourth Amendment permitted Officer Williams to seize the bullet that he felt in Johnson's pocket, see Majority Op. at 997-98, and I therefore join the Court's opinion. I write separately to clarify that if it were up to me, rather than tying that judgment to the particular situation faced by the particular officer in this particular case, I would simply hold, as a prophylactic matter, that if a policeman discovers a bullet during the course of an otherwise-lawful Terry stop, he can seize it as a means of "neutraliz[ing] the threat"…