Jackson v. Commonwealth

Relying on a tip from an anonymous informant, a police officer conducted an investigatory stop of an automobile in which the defendant was a passenger. The issue is whether the information from the anonymous caller, corroborated in part by police officers’ observations, provided reasonable articulable suspicion to justify the investigative traffic stop. We conclude that it did not and that, therefore, evidence seized from the defendant during a subsequent search should have been suppressed by the trial court.

PRIOR RELEVANT PROCEEDINGS

The appellant, Jerald Lorenzo Jackson, was indicated in the…