United States v. Lewis, No. 10-13567 (11th Cir. 2012)
Annotate this CaseIn this interlocutory appeal, the government appealed from a district court order granting defendant's motion to suppress a firearm discovered after he and three associates were briefly detained by law enforcement officers at night in a parking lot. The district court granted the motion to suppress the firearm, holding that the detention of defendant was unreasonable and therefore violated the Fourth Amendment. The court reversed and remanded because under the peculiar facts of the case and the danger extant, it was reasonable for the officers to make a split-second decision to briefly detain all four individuals as they investigated possible violations of Florida's concealed-weapons laws.
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