IN: Completely unjustified frisk suppressed

The officer in this case received word that defendant was a drug dealer, so he went around looking for defendant. He saw the defendant a couple of times but nothing was unusual or suggested a crime. Then he initiated a traffic stop and patted defendant down. The patdown lacked any reasonable suspicion of possession of a weapon, let alone wrongdoing. Dixon v. State, 2014 Ind. App. LEXIS 336 (July 22, 2014).

Defendant was stopped for not having a temporary tag. When the tag was seen, the stop should have ended, but defendant gave a false name and DOB and that justified extending the stop. State v. Ford, 2014 Mo. App. LEXIS 779 (July 22, 2014).*

The officer was likely mistaken in his detention of plaintiff, but it was with arguable probable cause, so the officer gets qualified immunity. Moreno v. Turner, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 13923 (11th Cir. July 22, 2014).*