UNITED STATES v. WEAVER

No. 18-1697-cr August Term 2020.

9 F.4th 129 (2021)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Calvin WEAVER, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: August 16, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carina H. Schoenberger , Assistant United States Attorney, for Antoinette T. Bacon , Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York, Syracuse, NY, for Appellee.

James P. Egan , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Syracuse, NY, for Defendant-Appellant.

Alexandra A.E. Shapiro , Erin M. James , Shapiro Arato Bach LLP, New York, NY; Richard D. Willstatter , National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, White Plains, NY; Timothy P. Murphy , New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Buffalo, NY, for National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and New York Council of Defense Lawyers, Amici Curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant.

Jenn Rolnick Borchetta , The Bronx Defenders, Bronx, NY; Jin Hee Lee , Ashok Chandran , Mahogane Reed , NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., New York, NY and Washington, D.C.; Christopher T. Dunn , New York Civil Liberties Union Foundation, New York, NY; Darius Charney , The Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY; Corey Stoughton , Steve Wasserman , The Legal Aid Society, New York, NY; Jonathan Moore , Luna Droubi , Beldock Levine & Hoffman LLP, New York, NY, for Stop-and-Frisk Class Counsel, Amici Curiae in support of Defendant-Appellant.

Chin, Circuit Judge, joined by Calabresi and Pooler, Circuit Judges, filed a dissenting opinion.


This case presents what is, in some respects, a familiar question: whether a police officer's pat-down search of a suspect for weapons was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. In concluding that the search here was reasonable, we break no new legal ground but rather reiterate well-settled constitutional principles...

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