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State v. Santos

Citations

  • 267 Conn. 495
  • 838 A.2d 981
  • 2004 Conn. LEXIS 12

How courts have described this case

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

  • deciding claim under state constitution where standard for warrantless patdown searches was same under federal and state constitutions
  • “[i]n determining the . . . question of whether there has been a seizure, we examine the effect of the police conduct at the time of the alleged seizure, applying an objective standard” [internal quotation marks omitted]
  • “presence in a high crime area at night, without any other facts, cannot form the basis for a reasonable and articulable suspicion that the defendant had engaged or was about to engage in criminal activity”
  • presence of individual in high crime area at night not sufficient to justify seizure
  • defendant seized when instructed to submit to patdown search

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Vertefeuille

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