{"id":32880,"date":"2018-05-01T04:39:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T09:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32880"},"modified":"2018-05-01T04:39:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T09:39:21","slug":"mo-defs-overly-nervous-behavior-feigning-sleep-hiding-something-and-admission-he-had-a-weapon-was-certainly-rs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32880","title":{"rendered":"MO: Def&#8217;s overly nervous behavior, feigning sleep, hiding something, and admission he had a weapon was certainly RS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe evidence supported a reasonable and particularized suspicion that Defendant was armed, based upon the following behavior exhibited by Defendant: (1) feigning to be asleep; (2) numerous false statements to police; (3) overly nervous demeanor and sweating; (4) flight-like behavior; (5) initial refusal to reveal his waist area; (6) his suspicious fidgeting underneath his towel, which caused both officers to believe at that point Defendant possessed a weapon; and (7) when Officer Cook asked Defendant if he had \u2018a knife or a gun or anything like that,\u2019 Defendant nodded affirmatively. All of this behavior would cause a reasonably prudent person to suspect that Defendant was armed and dangerous.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courts.mo.gov\/file.jsp?id=125233\">State v. Allen<\/a>, 2018 Mo. App. LEXIS 426 (Apr. 30, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe evidence supported a reasonable and particularized suspicion that Defendant was armed, based upon the following behavior exhibited by Defendant: (1) feigning to be asleep; (2) numerous false statements to police; (3) overly nervous demeanor and sweating; (4) flight-like behavior; &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32880\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32881,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32880\/revisions\/32881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}