United States v. Darius Heard

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• holding that an anonymous, face-to- face tip created reasonable suspicion that defendant possessed a weapon
• concluding that an anonymous face-to-face tip that a man with whom the tipster had been arguing had a gun provided reasonable suspicion for a stop and frisk
• explaining that suspect’s adverse reaction to police may independently corroborate tip provided by anonymous informant
• finding face-to-face tip to be reliable even though unidentified tipster ran off after giving tip
• citizen informed police that he had observed a person with a firearm before police stopped Valentine
• face-to-face anonymous tip presumed to be inherently more reliable than anonymous telephone tip

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).