Legal Opinion

United States v. Turner

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided August 28, 1997No. 97-CO-276PublishedCited by 30 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PRYOR, Senior Judge:

In this expedited interlocutory appeal, the government challenges the trial court’s suppression of evidence the police obtained from Turner after stopping him and a second man based on a lookout for one suspect that generally described them both. Because we decide, after examining the totality of the circumstances, that the police had the requisite particularity for a reasonable articulable suspicion that Turner had engaged in a drug sale, we reverse the trial court’s order and remand for further proceedings.

I

On February 17,1996, three officers of the Metropolitan Police…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
  2. Rakas v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  3. United States v. CortezSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
  4. United States v. SokolowSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  5. United States v. Brignoni-PonceSupreme Court of the United States · 1975

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