Legal Opinion
People v. Tooks
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided November 20, 1978No. 59218, (Calendar No. 3)PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilliams, J.
As a result of rather specific information received from a citizen who refused his name because of fear of local gangs, John Levester Tooks was subjected to a pat-down police search during which a gun was discovered. He was subsequently charged with carrying a concealed weapon. The prosecutor appeals to this Court from affirmance by the Court of Appeals of an order to suppress that evidence.
We reverse.
I. Facts
On November 6, 1975, an unidentified citizen approached two Detroit police officers and gave the officers information that he had observed a man showing a gun to two other men. He…
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