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U.S. v. GRIFFIN

No. 11-15558.

696 F.3d 1354 (2012)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Kareen Rasul GRIFFIN, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

October 2, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patricia D. Barksdale , John Matthew Guard , U.S. Attys., Jacksonville, FL, Robert E. O'Neill , U.S. Atty., Tampa, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Sylvia Irvin , Fed. Pub. Def., Jacksonville, Rosemary Cakmis , Donna Lee Elm , Fed. Pub. Defenders, Orlando, FL, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before DUBINA, Chief Judge, and JORDAN and ALARCÓN, Circuit Judges.

JORDAN, Circuit Judge:

Does a constitutionally valid stop and frisk become unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment when the officer asks some brief questions unrelated to the reason for the stop and the purpose of the frisk? The district court thought so, and suppressed the answers to those questions and ammunition found after the answers were provided. We reverse, concluding that the questions posed did not convert a permissible encounter into an unconstitutional...

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