State v. Kettlewell

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing that “[g]enerally, information about criminal or suspicious activity from a citizen, who is not a paid informant and is unconnected with the police, is presumed to be reliable”
• recognizing validity of brief investigative detention if the officer, “based on objective facts and circumstances, reasonably believes that the suspect is, or is about to be, engaged in criminal activity”
• explaining that test is “whether, based upon the whole picture, [an officer] . . . could reasonably surmise that the particular vehicle [he] stopped was engaged in criminal activity” (quotation omitted)
• explaining that test is “whether, based upon the whole picture, [an officer] . . . could reasonably surmise that the particular vehicle [he or she] stopped was engaged in criminal activity” (quotation omitted)
• seizure occurred when suspects were ordered from trailer by police officers with weapons drawn, and then questioned by federal agents
• test is whether, looking at entire picture, police officers could reasonably surmise that occupants of vehicle they stopped were engaged in unlawful activity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).