# State v. Doughty

> Washington Supreme Court · September 23, 2010 · 170 Wash. 2d 57

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4714522

## Case

- **Full name:** The State of Washington v. Walter Moses Doughty
- **Court:** Washington Supreme Court
- **Decided:** September 23, 2010
- **Citations:** 170 Wash. 2d 57
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Chambers
- **Judges:** Alexander, Chambers, Fairhurst, Johnson, Madsen, Owens, Sanders, Stephens
- **Cited by:** 102 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding police may not seize a person who visits a suspected drug house late at night and who stays for only two minutes based only on neighbor’s complaints of short-stay traffic and where there is no “actual evidence of drugs, controlled buys, reports of known drug users or d…

## Opinion text

Chambers, J.
¶19 (concurring) — I agree with the majority that, on the record before us, there were insufficient facts to justify a Terry 4 stop. I write separately to suggest that, in my view, had the record contained more specific facts indicating why this house was designated a “drug house” our analysis might be different. We look at the totality of the circumstances to determine whether an officer was justified in making an investigatory stop. State *66 v. Glover, 116 Wn.2d 509, 514 , 806 P.2d 760 (1991). Here, where the only facts suggesting that the house Walter Doughty approached was a drug house are neighbors’ complaints of short stay traffic, the totality of the circumstances do not justify the stop.
¶20 I respectfully concur.
Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 , 88 S. Ct. 1868 , 20 L. Ed. 2d 889 (1968).

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