Legal Opinion
United States v. Jones
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 10, 2012No. 11-4268PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge MOTZ wrote the opinion, in which Judge KING and Judge GREGORY joined.
OPINION
DIANA GRIBBON MOTZ, Circuit Judge:
Two police officers, in a marked patrol cruiser, closely followed a car from a public road onto private property, and then blocked the car’s exit. The officers observed no traffic violation. The only assertedly suspicious activity they saw was the car’s presence in a high-crime neighborhood with out-of-state tags. These facts alone led the officers to suspect that the car’s occupants, four African American men, were involved in drug…
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