United States v. Roy W. Nafzger

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing statements that the defendant was suspected of being a member of a stolen car ring and probably had stolen cars at his residence as sufficient to satisfy the collective knowledge doctrine
• analyzing the sufficiency of information possessed by FBI agent who provided information to county law enforcement agency
• all officers \were part of a coordinated investigation\ of defendant who was suspected of being involved in organized crime ring
• ex- plaining, in the Terry context, that “the requesting officer’s be- lief that there is sufficient evidence to detain a suspect must have been communicated to the officer performing the stop”
• investigatory stop of vehicle justified without request that vehicle be stopped where local officer had been told by FBI that defendant was suspected in stolen car ring and local officer recognized defendant as he drove on highway
• “The law enforcement officer making the arrest or stop acts within the law so long as an objective interpretation of the flyer or bulletin would lead him or her to believe that the stop or arrest was permissible.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).