United States v. Edmonds, Brad

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that a furtive gesture made in response to the presence of police can be a significant factor to support reasonable suspicion of criminal wrongdoing
• recognizing that reliance on a high crime area is proper where officers articulate a connection between the type of crime frequently occurring in the area and the offense the defendant was suspected of committing
• holding that an officer had reasonable suspicion for a Terry stop in part because, while approaching a vehicle, he “noticed [the suspect] reaching under the driver’s seat as though he were attempting to conceal something”
• explaining that if the officer could observe the defendant through his windshield, it is a “fair inference” that the defendant in turn saw the officer and “perceived his badge”
• explaining that the government “submitted evidence . . . that the 4600 block of Livingston Road suffers from a high incidence of crime” and was an “open air drug market”
• positing that law enforcement officers’ “training and experiences enable [them] to draw inferences and make deductions from seemingly innocuous facts . . . that might well elude an untrained person” (cleaned up)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).