Commonwealth v. Cheek

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that officer did not have reasonable suspicion to stop suspect fitting general description of “black male with a black 3k length goose [jacket]” walking in general area where crime had recently occurred
• description of suspect as “black male with a black ¾ length goose” jacket not sufficiently particularized to support reasonable suspicion for stop
• where pohce rely on radio buhetin as basis for warrantless stop, Commonwealth must show that informant providing tip was rehable
• description of suspect as “black male with a black 3/4 length goose” coat insufficient for individualized suspicion, as it could have fit large number of men
• lack of detail in radio description of a suspect was inadequate to single out defendant from other males in the area
• fact that it was high-crime area “contribute^] nothing to the officers’ ability to distinguish the defendant” as suspect

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).