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WA: Officer's observations of defendants and citizen informants before stop was corroboration

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

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Officers had reasonable suspicion for a stop based on a statement from citizen informant who defendants pulled up next to and offered crack and showed it. The citizen told the officers who observed the encounter. State v. Lee, 2008 Wash. App. LEXIS 2962 (December 29, 2008). Taillight stop led officer to reasonably suspect that the occupants had been involved in a recent robbery. State v. Cooper, 2009 La. App. LEXIS 32 (2d Cir. January 14, 2009): Officer Person noted that the suspects fit the general description of the perpetrators and that the suspects were in the vicinity of the vehicle which had been abandoned by the offenders. He also saw that the number and size of the suspects was incongruous with the small car that they entered, that one of the suspects looked startled upon seeing a police officer and that all of the suspects acted nervous after the stop...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 18, 2009 (boomark / email).

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