California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Nelson, B254197 (Cal. App. 2015):
but rather what the officer believes the object is by the time he concludes that it is not a weapon"]; see also People v. Lee (1987) 194 Cal.App.3d 975, 985 ["in order to rule out the presence of a weapon, the officer may have to determine an object's 'weight and consistency'"].)
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