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· 12/4/1975

United States v. Rufus A. Rias

Citations

  • 524 F.2d 118
  • 1975 U.S. App. LEXIS 11648

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding no reasonable suspicion where the suspects matched the following description: two black men driving a black or blue Chevrolet
  • suspects fitting description of “two black males in a black or blue Chevrolet” did not provide officer reasonable suspicion to stop vehicle
  • suspicion arising exclusively from the description of “two black males in a black or blue Chevrolet [who] were suspects in a series of . . . robberies,” which was “so tenuous as to provide virtually no grounds whatsoever for suspicion”

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Judges: Gewin, Goldberg, Dyer

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