Commonwealth v. Espada

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• mere presence of defendant in high crime area does not provide police with reasonable and articulable suspicion necessary to justify investigatory stop and frisk
• no reasonable suspicion existed for Terry stop of defendant who merely was on corner with others in high crime area and walked toward police car when summoned
• mere presence in high crime area does not justify Terry stop
• mere presence in high crime area provides no basis for Terry stop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).