Ross v. State

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 general description in a be-on-the-lookout dispatch did not justify the stop of the defendant
• holding that a BOLO description of a “black male with short cropped hair, wearing a white tee shirt and wearing blue jeans” could have fit many people in the area and therefore was too general to give officers a founded suspicion to justify the stop
• radio dispatch describing black male with short-cropped hair wearing white tee shirt and blue jeans was general; clothing description was not unusual or distinctive; stop not justified
• tip that a black male with short cropped hair, wearing a white tee shirt and blue jeans was involved in an assault could have fit many people in the black neighborhood

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Ortiz
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1992-05-12· cited 14×
• Williams v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-08-17· cited 13×
• State v. Scott
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-08-31· cited 12×
• Bussey v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-07-19· cited 12×
• Jonavon D. Gaines v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-02-11· cited 11×
• Strong v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1986-08-13· cited 9×
• Sanders v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1996-01-26· cited 6×
• Taylor v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-06-13· cited 6×
• Bellamy v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1997-05-30· cited 5×
• State v. Green
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1992-06-23· cited 3×
• R.M. v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-01-02
• State v. Andrews
  Florida Circuit Courts· 1990-03-15
• Vargas v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-07-23

Cites

3 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Hetland v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-09-11· cited 95×
• State v. Hetland
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-01-24· cited 92×
• Lewis v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-10-06· cited 36×