United States v. James A. Drake

How courts have described this case

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• holding that we “presume the reliability of an eyewitness 911 call reporting an emergency situation for purposes of establishing reasonable suspicion, particularly when the caller identifies herself”
• noting that presumed reliability of call may be overcome if officers learn reason to doubt its accuracy
• noting that presumed reliability of call may be overcome if officers learn reason to doubt its accuracy
• noting that courts typically presume that eyewitness 911 call reports are reliable
• con- cluding reasonable suspicion existed when an identified eyewitness made a 911 call to report an ongoing emer- gency
• “We therefore presume the reliability of an eyewitness 911 call reporting an emergency situation for purposes of establishing reasonable suspicion, particularly when the caller identifies [himself].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).