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United States v. Curtis Watkins, 4th Cir. (2014)
United States v. Curtis Watkins, 4th Cir. (2014)
No. 14-4342
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern
District of West Virginia, at Charleston.
John T. Copenhaver,
Jr., District Judge. (2:13-cr-00120-1)
Submitted:
FLOYD,
Circuit
Decided:
Judges,
and
November 6, 2014
HAMILTON,
Senior
PER CURIAM:
Curtis Watkins entered a conditional guilty plea to
possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, in violation of 18
U.S.C.
922(g)(1),
924(a)(2)
eighty-four
months
imprisonment
released.
Watkins
district
appeal,
courts
Watkins
concluding
that
plea
and
preserved
order
denying
argues
that
the
(2012),
his
the
officers
and
three
his
was
years
right
motion
district
sentenced
to
supervised
to
appeal
suppress.
court
stop-and-frisk
to
On
erred
satisfied
the
in
the
suppress,
this
court
reviews
the
district
courts
legal
States
v.
McGee,
736
F.3d
263,
269
(4th
Cir.
2013).
2013).
[A]n
officer
may,
consistent
with
the
Fourth
afoot.
Illinois
v.
Wardlow,
528
U.S.
119,
123
(2000).
Moreover, if the officer has a reasonable fear for his own and
2
others
safety
based
on
an
articulable
suspicion
that
the
F.3d
270,
275
(4th
Cir.
2004)
quotation
marks
omitted).
The officer must have at least a minimal level of
objective justification for making the stop and must be able
to
articulate
more
than
an
inchoate
and
unparticularized
Courts
giving
due
weight
to
common
sense
judgments
dispense
with
oral
argument
because
the
facts
and
legal
contentions
are
adequately
presented
in
the
materials
before
this court and argument would not aid the decisional process.
AFFIRMED