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U.S. v. COPLIN

No. 05-2077.

463 F.3d 96 (2006)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Eddie COPLIN, Defendant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 20, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Grossberg, for appellant.

Randall E. Kromm, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael J. Sullivan, United States Attorney, was on brief, for appellee.

Before TORRUELLA, SELYA and DYK, Circuit Judges.

SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal hinges on an interesting and important point in the jurisprudence of the Fourth Amendment: does reasonable suspicion, based on a plausible but mistaken view of the facts, justify a Terry stop? The district court answered this question in the affirmative, and so do we. Consequently, we uphold the district court's denial of the defendant's motion to suppress. We also reject, more easily, the defendant's

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