STATE v. COLEMAN

No. A-00-511.

630 N.W.2d 686 (2001)

10 Neb. App. 337

STATE of Nebraska, Appellee, v. Robert E. COLEMAN, Jr., Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Nebraska.

July 10, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George B. Achola, of Walentine, O'Toole, McQuillan & Gordon, for appellant.

Don Stenberg, Attorney General, and Marilyn B. Hutchinson for appellee.

IRWIN, Chief Judge, and SIEVERS and CARLSON, JJ.


SIEVERS, Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether a warning from a dispatcher to a police officer making a traffic stop that the driver is "a 2CX," which the officer testified means a "convicted felon that should be considered extremely dangerous," justifies a pat-down search of the suspect. See Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968). The pat down turned up illegal drugs, and in the course of the pat...

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