Legal Opinion
Cook v. Commonwealth
Kentucky Supreme Court
Decided April 20, 1983PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VANCE, Justice.
The ultimate question raised by this appeal concerns the extent of the authority of police officers to stop a vehicle for investigation based upon a tip from an unidentified, but reliable, informant.
On September 2, 1980, at approximately 9:00 p.m., Detective Tom Murphy of the Louisville Police Department, Division of Narcotics, received a phone call from an unidentified confidential informant. At 9:30 p.m. on the same date, Detective Murphy met with this informant and was advised that at some time between 10:00 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. on that night an older model yellow pickup…
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