State v. Citarella

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• explaining that defendant's flight became an additional factor that heightened the level of reasonable and articulable suspicion
• stating that an officer is not required to accept \purely innocent connotations . . . to a person's actions\ if the actions are also \'consistent with guilt'\
• stating that \recent nearby crimes\ can be a factor in finding reasonable suspicion
• finding suspect’s movements and gestures, presence of incriminating information about vehicle or occupants, and time and place of encounter can create reasonable suspicion necessary to justify search
• noting expert testimony that “it is common practice for drug purchasers to drive to Fort Lee, park their cars, and travel to New York on foot or bicycle to buy drugs”
• upholding investigatory stop when police officer observed defendant riding bicycle across George Washington Bridge into Fort Lee and, on encountering officer, defendant appeared nervous, increased speed, jumped off bicycle, and placed it in truck

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).