Where a district court granted a defendant’s motion to suppress in an illegal-alien-in-possession case, the judgment is reversed because the state showed that the encounter was consensual under the circumstances, and the court erred in finding that the defendant ...

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Where a defendant argued that an investigatory stop and subsequent protective frisk were invalid, the judgment was affirmed because officers had a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity after the defendant approached a crime scene to which he was unrelated, gestured ...

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Plaintiff appealed the district court’s adverse grant of summary judgment in his §1983 action. Plaintiff alleged defendants violated his constitutional rights during a pat-down search and subsequent investigation. Where defendants’ alleged conduct did not give rise to a constitutional violation, ...

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State v. Allen (MLW No. 71633/Case No. SD34824 – 10 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Bates, J.)

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U.S. v. Espinoza (MLW No. 71462/Case No. 16-4485 – 14 pages) (U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit, Loken, J.)

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State v. Williams (MLW No. 70679/Case No. ED104649 – 34 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, Odenwald, J.)

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