In re the Welfare of M.M.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a suspect’s furtive movements while in a high crime area, alone, were not sufficient to generate reasonable suspicion
• reviewing \waistband\ cases from various jurisdictions and concluding that \a police officer's observation of a suspect making an adjustment in the vicinity of his waistband does not give rise to reasonable suspicion of criminal involvement sufficient to justify a Terry stop\
• reviewing ‘‘waistband’’ cases from various jurisdictions and concluding that ‘‘a police officer’s observation of a suspect making an adjustment in the vicinity of his waistband does not give rise to reasonable suspicion of criminal involvement sufficient to justify a Terry stop’’
• “Here, there was no proof of a describable object that reasonably could have been suspected of being a gun. [The officer] neither saw the outline of a gun, nor any part of what appeared to be a gun. Significantly, he was completely unable to describe the bulge.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).