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STAFFORD v. STATE

No. 289, 2011.

59 A.3d 1223 (2012)

Byron STAFFORD, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: December 4, 2012.

Corrected: March 7, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Santino Ceccotti , Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, Delaware for appellant.

Morgan T. Zurn and Paul R. Wallace (argued), Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware for appellee.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices constituting the Court en Banc.

STEELE, Chief Justice:

A passenger in a car stopped by the police for illegally tinted windows claimed to have no identification and provided an officer with a false identity. After a database search returned no results, the officer handcuffed the passenger and recovered a gun during a pat down. We hold that the officer possessed probable cause to arrest the passenger for criminal impersonation. Therefore, we AFFIRM the trial judge's denial of a motion...

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