· 3/23/2004
United States v. Irvin D. Mayo
Citations
- 361 F.3d 802
- 2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 5407
- 2004 WL 557250
How courts have described this case
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- finding reasonable suspicion based in part on defendant’s nervous behavior, where his “eyes were extremely wide, his mouth was slightly agape” and his shirt was “fluttering ... as though he was shaking”
- “A suspect’s refusal to cooperate with police, without more, does not satisfy Terry stop requirements.”
- “A suspect’s refusal to cooperate with police, without more, does not satisfy Terry stop requirements.”
- the officers did not know of any other facts that would have made Mayo’s carrying of a concealed handgun per se illegal.
- fact that stop and frisk occurred in high crime area targeted for special enforcement by city is one factor considered to determine reasonable suspicion based totality of circumstances
- “[R]elevant to the totality of circumstances are various individual factors . . . such as . . . whether the suspect engaged in evasive behavior or acted nervously.”
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Niemeyer, Shedd, Duncan
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