Education Service Center Region 2 v. Amanda Barrera

How courts have described this case

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• unprovoked flight, in case involving use of firearm, “tipped the scale of justification . . . giving rise to reasonable suspicion”
• “the possession of a firearm by a minor may be viewed as presumptively illegal”
• “The officer’s approach without any direction to stop, coincident with his asking first the three males, and then the defendant a second time, to talk to him, did not constitute a seizure”
• because license to carry firearm only may be issued to persons twenty-one years of age or older, G. L. c. 140, § 131(d)(iv), apparent minor's possession of firearm \may be viewed as presumptively illegal\
• suspects “close by the area where the shooting was reported, and with no one else on the street at that late hour,” inter alla, “reasonably supports a conclusion that they were persons possibly involved in the reported incidents” [footnote omitted]
• suspects “close by the area where the shooting was reported, and with no one else on the street at that late hour,” inter alia, “reasonably supports a conclusion that they were persons possibly involved in the reported incidents”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).