State v. Vandover

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that “potential danger to the public” is not “a substitute for a reliable informant”
• holding stop unlawful despite seriousness of person brandishing shotgun due to no indicia of reliability in tip
• finding a traffic stop unreasonable when based on an anonymous call that the subject had brandished a sawed-off shotgun
• investigatory stop resulting from informant's tip is not reasonable unless tip itself is shown to be rehable
• finding a traffic stop unreasonable when based on an anonymous call that the subject had brandished a sawed -off shotgun
• danger to the public is a “factor which may make an investigatory stop reasonable under the circumstances where there are already indications that the informant’s tip was reliable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).