Rojas Casado, F., Aplt. v. DOC

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the police’s tackling of the defendant, who fled from a traffic stop and continued to flee despite repeated orders to stop, was a Terry stop
• noting that a “police officer who observes a violation of state traffic laws may lawfully stop the car committing the violation”
• holding officers may frisk a car occupant and search the passenger compartment upon reasonable suspicion that the occupant is armed and dangerous
• recognizing that flight from uniformed officers supports reasonable suspicion
• “Mere presence in an area known for high crime does not give rise to reasonable suspicion.”
• “It is well established that officers are permitted to pull over a car suspected of violating any applicable vehicular traffic laws.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).