· 8/14/1985
Metcalf v. Long
Citations
- 615 F. Supp. 1108
- 1985 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 16829
How courts have described this case
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- finding consent to search was withdrawn by the suspect’s refusal to provide the officers with the keys to his locked residence and his statement, “If you want to go in there, kick the door in”
- stop of vehicle justified by officers’ reasonable suspicion that driver was an escaped felon who officers were searching for, or that escaped felon was a passenger in stopped vehicle, or defendant knew of felon’s whereabouts
- \[T]he initial stop of Metcalf [the driver] was justified by the officers' reasonable suspicion that either the driver of the vehicle was Dennis Ponder [a fleeing felon] or that the driver had Ponder in his vehicle or knew of his whereabouts\
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Judges: Longobardi
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