United States v. Quincy Wimbush

How courts have described this case

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• holding that stop was reasonable where defendant “matched the description of the suspect” and drove a car “substantially similar to the one driven by the suspect” only blocks from the site of a recent shooting
• noting that search of car was justified after officer saw open container of alcohol and smelled marijuana
• concluding that reasonable suspicion for a stop existed when defendant “was driving a vehicle substantially similar to the one driven by the suspect [of a shooting] . . . and the shooting had occurred only minutes earlier in an area just eight blocks away”
• explaining that an officer smelling marijuana justified search of the vehicle
• noting as a relevant factor the fact that suspect was found eight blocks away from reported crime
• noting as a relevant factor the fact that suspect was found eight blocks away from reported crime

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).