# People v. Collins

> California Supreme Court · January 23, 1970 · 1 Cal. 3d 658

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9536070

## Case

- **Full name:** The PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. WILLIAM COLLINS, JR., Defendant and Respondent
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** January 23, 1970
- **Citations:** 1 Cal. 3d 658; 83 Cal. Rptr. 179; 463 P.2d 403; 1970 Cal. LEXIS 340
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by McCOMB
- **Judges:** Peters, Burke, McComb
- **Cited by:** 80 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding “that an officer who exceeds a pat-down without first discovering an object which feels reasonably like a knife, gun, or club must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which reasonably support a suspicion that the particular suspect is armed with an atypi…

## Opinion text

McCOMB, J.
I dissent. I would reverse the order for the reasons expressed by Justice Lillie in the opinion prepared by her for the Court of Appeal in People v. Collins (Cal.App.) 80 Cal.Rptr. 310 . ■

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