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Court permits stop of a dark blue car despite lookout for a tan car.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Bill of Rights (Image from the public domain.) During the 2002 Washington sniper manhunt, too many police abandoned the Fourth Amendment by stopping white truck after white truck, based on erroneous eyewitness tips. However, the now-convicted sniper defendants were found in a non-white sedan. (Less than around a half hour after the last sniper shooting, I arrived at my YMCA destination, where at the same time the now-convicted sniper defendants apparently were working out at the same gym.) Fast forward to 2005. District of Columbia police officers heard a radio call for an armed robbery in the 1300 block of Florida Avenue NE, including a description of the suspects and their car. The radio call described the suspects' vehicle as "a Crown Vic Ford model, tan on the side, black on top with smoked-out windows, year between 94 and 97...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on April 04, 2008 (boomark / email).