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TX: It is not required that a specific offense be identified for reasonable suspicion

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

It is not required that a specific offense be identified for reasonable suspicion to exist. Derichsweiler v. State, 2011 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 112 (January 26, 2011) (concurrence; dissent), revg Derichsweiler v. State, 301 S.W.3d 803 (Tex. App. – Fort Worth, 2009): ... We conclude that the majority below erred to the extent that its opinion may be read for the proposition that facts adduced to give rise to a reasonable suspicion must show that the detainee has committed, is committing, or is about to commit, a particular and distinctively identifiable penal offense. Unlike the case with probable cause to justify an arrest, it is not a sine qua non of reasonable suspicion that a detaining officer be able to pinpoint a particular penal infraction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on January 31, 2011 (boomark / email).