United States Eleventh Circuit

A law enforcement officer may briefly detain and order a passenger to reenter an automobile to protect the officer-s safety while the officer investigates a crime committed in his presence by two associates of the passenger.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/16/2003
• Published 07/16/2003

Judges

• ALARCÓN, Circuit Judge:, Before BARKETT, MARCUS and ALARCÓN , Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William S. Duffey, Jr.,Todd C. Alley, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Allison Veronica Dawson, Fed. Pub. Def., Fed. Def. Program, Curtis L. Hubbard, Jr., Franklin & Hubbard, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellee.