Legal Opinion
United States v. Fausto Lopez
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided October 18, 2018No. 17-2517PublishedCited by 74 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Hamilton, Circuit Judge.
Law enforcement officers detained and frisked defendant-appellant Fausto Lopez after observing him and his brother load paper bags into Lopez's garage. The officer who ordered the stop had a "hunch" that the bags contained drug-trafficking contraband. That hunch was wrong. It had been based on a tip the officers had obtained the previous night from an informant detained for suspected drug trafficking. The informant stopped cooperating with the officers as soon as he was out of their sight.
After finding no contraband, the officer who had ordered the stop realized that…
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