State v. Saggers

Verellen, A.C.J.

¶1 Consistent with the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in Navarette v. California,1 a 911 phone call from an unknown caller who gives a contemporaneous eyewitness account of a serious offense presenting an exigent threat to public safety may provide a valid basis for an investigatory {Terry2) stop. But here, police officers had good reasons to question the reliability of the 911 call and any suspicion of an exigent circumstance had dissipated by the time police officers inquired whether Andrew Saggers had a shotgun in his house. Saggers’ admission that he…