Harris v. Com.

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• holding that an officer who received only readily observable information from an anonymous informant did not have reasonable suspicion
• noting that police could not reasonably rely on tip where the “dispatcher did not include any information concerning the identity of the person who had called in the information communicated in the dispatch”
• finding anonymous tip that defendant was driving intoxicated in a particular location not sufficiently reliable or predictive of criminal behavior to justify a stop
• indicating for a claim pursuant to the Fourth Amendment, that “the Court’s review of whether there was reasonable suspicion involves application of an objective rather than a subjective standard”
• finding the anonymous tipster unreliable where the tipster was unknown to police and did not subject himself to possible arrest if the information he provided to the police dispatcher proved false
• “Lawful conduct that the officer may subjectively 5 As noted supra, this rule is subject to numerous exceptions, such as that stated in Code § 46.2-1030(F

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