United States v. Brandon Burgess

How courts have described this case

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

• holding officers had reasonable suspicion when told “shots were fired from a black car traveling south” on a particular street
• holding reasonable suspicion supported stop of vehicle matching reported “black car” involved in criminal activity near certain location because “officers had both a specific car color and a street location to zero in on”
• stating that “the officers had … a street location to zero in on” when a car “pass[ed] them (going the other way and out of the area)” so “one might reasonably expect the shooter’s vehicle” to be that one
• “Just over four minutes had passed from the initial dispatch about gunshots to the officers’ report that Burgess was in custody.”
• “And because of the light traffic late on that Sunday night, there was a good chance that seeing Burgess’s car at that time and place was more than a coincidence.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).