Merz v. Kaiser

How courts have described this case

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

• declining “to extend the collective knowledge doctrine to encompass cases in which no actual communication or direction occurs between the officer conducting the search” and “the officer in possession of the information giving rise to the required reasonable suspicion”
• defendant’s “touching his waistband or side while in flight” contributed to reasonable suspicion for a frisk
• “Because [the] flight from the police occurred in a high-crime area[—here, an area recently experiencing a rising level of gun violence—], the Court concludes that the seizure . . . did not violate the Fourth Amendment.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).