United States v. Thompson, Terrell L.

How courts have described this case

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

• emphasizing that “[t]he informant stated that he ‘just saw’” the defendant with a firearm, which was illegal in D.C. at the time
• describing the defendant as “concealing himself behind [a] fence and peering out toward the street” from “the parking lot of a closed restaurant at three o’clock in the morning”
• finding an anonymous tip more reliable when it was made face-to-face and “the police need only have asked for [the tipster’s] identification or simply noted the license plate on his car”
• “To ask more of the police in these circumstances ... might well preclude them from interceding before the suspect has accomplished his violent, perhaps lethal, purpose.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).