Court Opinion

ID: 9701121
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 22:06:00.771973+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:02:51.531476
License: Public Domain

PRYOR, Chief Judge,
concurring:
When viewed from the vantage point of a reasonable law enforcement officer, Peterkin v. United States, 281 A.2d 567, 568 (D.C.1971), the initial encounter in this case, whether consensual or not, was sup*1046ported by sufficient articulable suspicion to justify the officer’s questioning, which, in turn, escalated to a frisk. While the officer would riot have been justified in frisking appellant initially, his subsequent response, based on evolving facts, was consistent with Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968).
Without accepting all that the majority opinion entails, I would reverse the suppression order.