Oregon Supreme Court· 3/24/1977

State v. Valdez

Citations

561 P.2d 1006
277 Or. 621
1977 Ore. LEXIS 1177

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concluding that an officer’s obser- vation of “persons who ‘didn’t look right’ putting a paper bag into the trunk of an automobile” was insufficient to support reasonable suspicion that a crime had occurred
discussing the objective element of the statutory test for reasonable suspicion
reasonable suspicion requires an officer to be able to point to specific and articulable facts, which give rise to the inference that criminal activity is afoot
“shined shoes, sharp clothes, neat ‘Afro’ haircuts, and people who stand and stare at officers” are not grounds for suspecting criminal activity
individual’s “sharp” appearance and fact that individual was placing paper bag in car trunk in high crime area at 5:00 p.m. did not constitute reasonable suspicion that individual had committed crime
The reasonable suspicion standard is “intended to be less than the standard for probable cause * * *.”

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Judges: Bryson, Holman, Howell, Tongue

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