Commonwealth v. Harkess

How courts have described this case

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

• doubting appropriateness of Appeals Court as forum to announce any such rule in the first instance
• in absence of seizure, there is no need for the police to justify their conduct by showing a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity
• appropriate for officers to investigate when individual flees without any show of authority by the police officers
• not to be counted [in determining reasonable suspicion in Thibeau] was an individual’s attempt to elude the police after they initiated pursuit based only on a hunch”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).