Morris v. City of Virginia Beach

How courts have described this case

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• noting this Court decides cases on “the best and narrowest ground available” (quoting Armstead v. Commonwealth, 56 Va. App. 569, 576, 695 S.E.2d 561, 564 (2010))
• applying “best and narrowest ground” principles to hold that where one legal theory legitimized a warrantless search, the Court would not consider whether a second legal theory might also do so (quoting Armstead v. Commonwealth, 56 Va. App. 569, 576 (2010))
• “The degree of certitude required by the reasonable suspicion standard is ‘considerably less than proof of wrongdoing by a preponderance of the evidence, and obviously less demanding than that for probable cause.’” (quoting Perry v. Commonwealth, 280 Va. 572, 581 (2010))

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