State v. O'Neill

A police officer approached a parked car in the parking lot of a closed supermarket in the early-morning hours and asked the man sitting in the driver’s *855seat for identification. The man, who police later determined to be Matthew Glynn O’Neill, claimed he had no identification, admitted that he had been driving on a suspended driver’s license, and gave the officer a false name. Suspecting that O’Neill was not who he claimed to be, the officer then asked him to step out of the car for a pat-down search for identification. As O’Neill was stepping out of the car, the officer saw on the floorboard…