Southwestern Wholesale Co. v. Lumber Mutual Fire Insurance

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• holding that where the appellant “merely ‘started to walk away,’” police officers lacked a reasonable basis to suspect he was engaged in criminal activity
• holding no reasonable suspicion when suspect walked away from arriving police in a high-crime area
• holding no reasonable suspicion when suspect walked away from arriving police in a high-crime area
• concluding that juvenile’s presence in a “high drug area,” and his decision to walk away from police as they approached in their vehicles, rather than running away or turning into headlong flight, did not provide reasonable suspicion to justify an investigatory stop
• officers do not have reasonable suspicion of criminal activity “where the only evidence of criminal wrongdoing was [a juvenile]’s presence in a high[-]crime area combined with his decision to ‘walk -7- J-A08022-18 away’ from the police officers upon seeing their approach.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).