Woody v. State

WALSH, Justice:

In this appeal from the Superior Court, we examine the question of whether flight from the police may be considered as a factor justifying apprehension. We conclude that, given the unusual and suspicious circumstances surrounding the defendant’s flight, the police were entitled to confront him and the Superior Court correctly concluded that the weapon subsequently seized from the defendant should not have been suppressed. Accordingly, we affirm.

I

At approximately 9:30 p.m., on January 14, 1999, Wilmington Police Sergeant Henry Alfree, while on patrol in an unmarked police car in…