United States Fourth Circuit

Officers in a high-crime area had authority to stop and frisk defendant after observing him react to their presence by placing his hand in his left hand jacket pocket - indicating to them that it might contain a gun - and thereafter conduct himself in an evasive, suspicious, palpably nervous manner.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/23/2004
• Published 03/23/2004

Judges

• Before NIEMEYER, SHEDD, and DUNCAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Michael James Elston, Assistant United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.  Mary Elizabeth Maguire, Assistant Federal Public Defender, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Paul J. McNulty, United States Attorney, Alexandria, Virginia, for Appellant.  Frank W. Dunham, Jr., Federal Public Defender, Richmond, Virginia, for Appellee.