Brandon Dewayne Sykes v. State of Alabama (Appeal from Lamar Circuit Court: CC-19-144).

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• holding that a suspect’s “semi-running” after “he recognized Officer Stocks as a police officer” supported reasonable suspicion
• holding that reliance on a high crime area was proper where the record contained evidence of frequent criminal activity at the specific intersection where the defendant was stopped
• noting that late-night activity in a high-crime area is a contextual consideration relevant to the reasonable suspicion calculus
• noting that the “speed of the suspect’s movements may be relevant in the totality of the circumstances”
• explaining that the time of night and a neighborhood’s high-crime reputation can support a reasonable-suspicion finding when paired with other factors
• noting that “the crimes that frequently occur in 5 the area are specific and related to the reason for which [the defendant] was 6 stopped”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).