The court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence. Having observed defendant exit and walk away from a vehicle whose alarm system had just been activated, behavior that, as the hearing court observed, "is completely contrary to the conduct of a person lawfully occupying or using" such vehicle, the officer had reasonable suspicion to stop and detain him for investigative purposes, and was entitled to pat him down. Upon feeling hard objects inside defendant...
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