United States v. Eugene Aubrey Sims

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant’s evasive behavior — which reasonably suggested he was hiding from officers and not simply “going about his business” — supported finding of reasonable suspicion for investigatory stop (alteration & internal quotation marks omitted)
• explaining that in J.L., the Supreme Court held “that the uncorroborated anonymous tip, by itself, did not create the reasonable suspicion of criminal activity necessary to support a search”
• explaining that in J.L., the Supreme Court held “that the uncorroborated anonymous tip, by itself, did not create the reasonable suspicion of criminal activity necessary to support a search”
• hiding behind a building and jerking back out of view after making eye contact with a police officer
• upholding Terry stop where an individual was found crouching and hiding around a corner “a very short distance from the spot where a shot was reportedly fired”
• upholding Terry stop where an individual was found crouching and hiding around a corner “a very short distance from the spot where a shot was reportedly fired”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).