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· 2/26/1973

United States v. Alexander Manuel Mallides

Citations

  • 473 F.2d 859

How courts have described this case

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

  • 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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