Edwards v. United States

KERN, Associate Judge:

This appeal presents for our determination a narrow question: Whether a police officer who confronts a citizen on a public street late at night lacking probable cause to arrest him, but having articulable grounds to suspect him to be engaged in on-going criminal activity, may pursue him from the street into private premises when he runs in response to the officer’s request to stop and answer questions.

The facts of the case may be most accurately and comprehensively stated by quoting the testimony of Detective Jackson, the principal actor in this particular “moving street…