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State v. Hoover

Citations

  • 520 So. 2d 696
  • 1988 WL 15446

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  • affirming trial court's granting of motion to suppress and holding that flight along will not justify a stop and the fact that defendant was in a high crime area does not constitute an additional suspicious circumstance such as will elevate the stop to the level of legality
  • in a high crime area, white driver seen talking to a black pedestrian, who walked quickly away into woods did not establish founded suspicion
  • no founded suspicion where the officer did not see drugs or money exchange hands but thought a drug deal had occurred because a black male was talking to and leaning up against the car of a white man in a predominately black, high drug area
  • no founded suspicion of criminal behavior

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Judges: Per Curiam

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