United States v. Coplin

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal hinges on an interesting and important point in the jurisprudence of the Fourth Amendment: does reasonable suspicion, based on a plausible but mistaken view of the facts, justify a Terry stop? The district court answered this question in the affirmative, and so do we. Consequently, we uphold the district court’s denial of the defendant’s motion to suppress. We also reject, more easily, the defen dant’s remaining claims of error, which challenge the district court’s regulation of cross-examination and its sentencing protocol.

I. BACKGROUND

We rehearse the facts…