Legal Opinion
United States v. Kareen Rasul Griffin
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided October 2, 2012No. 11-15558PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JORDAN, Circuit Judge:
Does a constitutionally valid stop and frisk become unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment when the officer asks some brief questions unrelated to the reason for the stop and the purpose of the frisk? The district court thought so, and suppressed the answers to those questions and ammunition found after the answers were provided. We reverse, concluding that the questions posed did not convert a permissible encounter into an unconstitutional one.
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Fourth Amendment cases are inherently fact-intensive, so we begin with the district court’s factual findings, which are not…
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