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Michigan Supreme Court· 12/4/1985

People v. Shabaz

Citations

  • 378 N.W.2d 451
  • 424 Mich. 42

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that there was no reasonable suspicion when the defendant was in a high- crime area at night and fled from plain-clothes police officers
  • determining that flight “does not alone supply the particularized, reasoned, articulable basis to conclude that criminal activity [is] afoot”
  • observing that the “[defendant's presence in a high-crime neighborhood does nothing to distinguish him from any number of other pedestrians in the area”
  • observing that the \[d]efendant's presence in a high-crime neighborhood does nothing to distinguish him from any number of other pedestrians in the area\
  • observing that it was reasonable under the circumstances of that case for the defendant to flee when he was “being scrutinized and then ‘tailed’ by-three unknown persons in a ‘private’ motor vehicle . . .”
  • finding no reasonable suspicion when the suspect came out of an apartment complex in a high-crime area, concealed a paper bag, and ran from a plain- clothes officer

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Levin, Brickley, Cavanagh, Riley, Ryan, Williams, Boyle

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80 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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