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E.D.Pa.: Stop in high crime area and refusal to show hands is RS

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Defendant who was stopped in a high crime area who wouldn’t look at the officer and wouldn’t move his hands from his groin area created reasonable suspicion. United States v. Greenwood, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 10123 (E.D. Pa. February 1, 2011).* Defendant was in violation of most of the conditions of his probation for failure to report and not being found where he was supposed to be. The probation search of his house and car when he finally appeared was reasonable. United States v. Brown, 2011 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9719 (S.D. Ga. January 3, 2011).* Defendant was on parole for drug offenses, and he got arrested for another. That was reasonable suspicion for a parole search of his house. United States v. Wilcher, 2010 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 140856 (N...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on February 04, 2011 (boomark / email).