United States v. Joseph A. Bundy

On October 24, 1969, Joseph Calan was robbed of 20 one-dollar bills and some small change at gunpoint. He immediately called the police and was interrogated at the scene of the crime by an Officer Brown. Brown immediately relayed a description of the robber over the police radio as “Negro male, eighteen years, * * * wearing a black raincoat and medium green pants.”

Within a few minutes, patrol officers Borden and Hall received the broadcast and observed appellant, who was wearing a black raincoat and green pants, stoop behind a parked car when he spotted the police. The officers called him…