Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee· 12/18/2001

State v. Levitt

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73 S.W.3d 159
2001 Tenn. Crim. App. LEXIS 946
2001 WL 1613888

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concluding that, under totality of circumstances, driver’s action in driving slowly on the shoulder for a brief interval to pass what he reasonably thought was the scene of an accident did not violate T.C.A. § 55-8-123(1)
providing that an officer’s seeing a traffic violation provides not only reasonable suspicion but probable cause to stop a defendant
Reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop will be found to exist only when the events which preceded the stop would cause an objectively reasonable police officer to suspect criminal activity on the part of the person stopped.

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Judges: Judge Alan E. Glenn

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