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The Fourth Department determined the police properly searched (frisked) the defendant after a valid vehicle-stop based on his “furtive” behavior:

As defendant correctly concedes, the police officer lawfully stopped defendant’s vehicle because it had a broken taillight …, and defendant voluntarily exited the vehicle.  Given defendant’s furtive behavior before and after exiting his vehicle, including being “fidgety” and “evasive” when answering the police officer’s questions, turning the right side of his body away from the police officer, and placing his right hand in his jacket pocket, the police officer “reasonably suspected that defendant was armed and posed a threat to [his] safety” … .  “Based upon [his] reasonable belief that defendant was armed, the officer[] lawfully conducted [the] pat frisk” that resulted in the seizure of the gun … . People v Carter, 965, 4th Dept 9-27-13

 

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