United States v. Zapata

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents questions concerning the legality of an investigatory stop, a war-rantless automobile search, and an ensuing interrogation. Contrary to appellant’s importuning, we hold that the Supreme Court’s opinion in California, v. Hodari D., 499 U.S. 621, 111 S.Ct. 1547, 113 L.Ed.2d 690 (1991), did not reconfigure the doctrine of Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), and, therefore, did not transmogrify the law governing investigatory stops. Thus, we conclude on the facts of this case that a slight physical touching by a police…