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Supreme Court of Vermont· 7/31/1998

State v. Lamb

Citations

  • 720 A.2d 1101
  • 168 Vt. 194
  • 1998 Vt. LEXIS 229

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  • concluding that anonymous tip was reliable where informant predicted defendant’s movements with specificity, predictions were verified by officer, and caller’s general identity was plainly inferable from her report
  • stating that the level of danger that a tip reveals is a “critical factor” in determining the reasonableness of a police response
  • stating that courts should consider “the gravity of the risk of harm . . . in evaluating the reasonableness of the investigatory stop”
  • holding that a traffic stop was “more than” justified where a 911 caller reported that the defendant was “very upset and intoxicated and was leaving a residence” because of the “impossibility that such information could have been supplied by anyone but a knowledgeable insider”
  • holding that a traffic stop was “more than” justified where a 911 caller reported that the defendant was “very upset and intoxicated and was leaving a residence” because of the “impossibility that such information could have been supplied by anyone but a knowledgeable insider”
  • where tip content indicated, inter alia, that it came from one of two women in household with named defendant, it provided reasonable suspicion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Amestoy, Dooley, Morse, Johnson, Skoglund

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