Jenkins v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• underscoring that an individual’s presence in a high crime area, alone, is not sufficient to support a reasonable suspicion
• defendant placing his hand behind his back was insufficient basis to raise a bare suspicion to a founded suspicion
• that appellant put his hand behind back when officers were checking the area was not enough to justify stop and pat-down
• “A ‘founded’ suspicion is one which has some factual foundation in the circumstances observed by the officer when those circumstances are interpreted in light of the officer’s knowledge.”
• fact that defendant, who was walking along public street at night in high crime commercial area, was observed placing his left hand behind his back as if to put something down his pants insufficient to support stop and pat-down search
• fact that defendant, who was walking along public street at night in high crime commercial area, was observed placing his left hand behind his back as if to put something down his pants, was insufficient to support stop and pat-down search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Daniels v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-05-16· cited 42×
• Dees v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-07-16· cited 28×
• Johnson v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-12-10· cited 23×
• Ruddack v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-02-01· cited 20×
• Evans v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1989-07-18· cited 19×
• Smith v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-01-22· cited 14×
• Curry v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-10-27· cited 12×
• Baggett v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-10-04· cited 12×
• State v. Cruse
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2013-09-11· cited 7×
• Griffin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-11-20· cited 5×
• J.D. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-10-16· cited 4×
• Poole v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-06-10· cited 3×
• Moore v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1990-03-12
• Rogers v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1991-03-01
• C.K. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1998-01-14

Cites

6 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Coladonato v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1977-07-14· cited 52×
• G.J.P. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-04-24· cited 39×
• State v. Levin
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1984-06-21· cited 24×
• Levin v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-09-13· cited 24×
• In the Interest of R.B. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-04-13· cited 23×
• Ward v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-08-01· cited 6×