United States v. Monteiro

How courts have described this case

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• determining that police unreasonably relied on a tip by an anonymous relative of a rival rang member who relayed the information, noting hearsay and motive concerns
• noting that corroboration of a tip may come in part from an individual’s recent arrest or affiliation for related conduct
• noting that corroboration may “eome[ ] in part from an individual’s gang affiliation and/or recent arrests for conduct related to the activity referred to in a tip”
• “[C]ourts have found that an individual’s criminal history corroborated reliable information, such as a police officer’s own observations, in constituting reasonable suspicion.” (emphasis added)
• additional rationale of heightened reliability for emergency calls when there is imminent threat to public safety
• “In evaluating whether reasonable suspicion existed, we ‘look at the totality of the circumstances of each case to see whether the detaining officer ha[d] a particularized and objective basis for suspecting legal wrongdoing.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).