Motley v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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• holding that seizure occurred when an officer approached defendant, commanded the defendant to “stop” where he was, and the defendant complied with the command
• where the police radio dispatch advised officer to be on the lookout for an individual fitting the defendant's description but gave no explanation as to why that individual was sought
• because there was no evidence presented at the suppression hearing explaining the reason for the police broadcast, the source or reliability of the information received, or any corroboration by the arresting officer, the officer had no basis to conduct a Terry stop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).