· 2/26/1973
United States v. Alexander Manuel Mallides
Citations
- 473 F.2d 859
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the INS needs to set forth objective evidence to show reasonable suspicion
- twenty prior arrests of aliens not sufficient basis on which to find \expertise\ since the number of innocents arrested and number of convictions were unknown
- twenty prior arrests of aliens not sufficient basis on which to find “expertise” since the number of innocents arrested and number of convictions were unknown
- \That innocent activity occurs in a high crime area provides no basis for converting innocuous conduct into suspicious conduct.\
- conduct not suspicious simply because the occupants of an automobile “do not look at a passing police car.”
- otherwise innocent conduct “does not become suspicious simply because the skins of the occupants [of a vehicle] are nonwhite”
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Judges: Koelsch, Hufstedler, Goodwin
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