United States v. Dapolito, No. 12-2023 (1st Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CaseA federal grand jury indicted Defendant of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Defendant moved to suppress the gun on the ground that the search that resulted in the discovery of the gun derived from an unlawful seizure. The district court granted the motion to suppress, finding that Defendant's encounter with law enforcement officers was at first consensual, but by the time it became a Terry stop, the officers lacked reasonable suspicion to permit the detention. The First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed, holding that the district court did not err in concluding that the totality of the circumstances did not provide a reasonable suspicion to support Defendant's continuing detention at the time of the search that produced the firearm.
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