United States v. Joseph Christmas, A/K/A Jason Carter

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a tip from a face-to-face encounter with an informant close in time and distance from the alleged illegal activity was sufficient to create a reasonable suspicion to conduct an investigatory stop
• explaining that a \com- munity might quickly succumb to a sense of helplessness if police were prevented from responding to the face-to-face pleas of neighbor- hood residents for assistance\
• stating that the informant’s close proximity to the illegal activity supported her credibility
• police reasonably concluded that informant, who lived two doors down from suspect, had knowledge of criminal activities occurring at her neighbor’s home
• resident informed police that individuals at house located two doors down possessed guns and drugs before Christmas was seized
• “Unlike the anonymous tipster, a witness who directly approaches a police officer can also be held accountable for false statements.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).