Layne v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• finding that officer had reasonable, articulable suspicion to stop suspect in assault and battery investigation to prevent her from possibly committing further crimes
• upholding a stop based on information from a dispatcher directing the officer to investigate a report from an identified person of an assault and battery
• officer responded to scene of reported assault and battery, complainant gave physical description of defendant, defendant returned to scene
• \An officer need not possess the statutory authority to effect an arrest . . . in order to effect a Terry-type detention to investigate incipient criminal activity.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).