Court Opinion

ID: 9769031
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 14:03:53.44627+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:07:50.682576
License: Public Domain

LEIBSON, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in results only.
In my judgment the opinion as written stretches the facts beyond reasonable limits.
The search of Leavell’s person at the time he was stopped and before he was arrested went beyond the limits of a Terry search. Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). There is no credible evidence the police thought that the packet removed could possibly be a weapon. However, I would hold that after a legitimate Terry stop, which this was, during a pat down search for weapons the police can remove any article that feels like it might be a weapon or contraband. We *699should challenge the U.S. Supreme Court to extend the law to this extent.