Commonwealth v. Jones-Pannell

How courts have described this case

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• appellate court may not engage in independent fact finding to reach conclusion of law contrary to that of motion judge
• defendant's jogging was prompted by officers asking to speak with him, getting out of cruiser, and calling, \Wait a minute\
• officer's training, combined with defendant ignoring officer's questions, defendant's flight, and hand inside of pants did not create reasonable suspicion that defendant possessed weapon
• \In the absence of findings on a critical issue . . . remand may be appropriate\
• appellate court may supplement motion judge's findings of fact with uncontroverted record evidence where judge explicitly credited witness's testimony and where facts do not detract from judge's ultimate findings
• \supplemented facts [may] not detract from the judge's ultimate findings\ [quotation and citation omitted]

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